Dimuth Karunaratne to retire from international cricket after playing his career's 100th test match

Dimuth Karunaratne made his international debut in 2011.

Former Sri Lankan captain and veteran opener Dimuth Karunaratne will be retiring from international cricket at the end of the second test of the ongoing two-test home series against Australia.

Sri Lanka lost the first test in Galle by a huge margin of an innings and 242 runs as Usman Khawaja buried the hosts under his double century. Steve Smith and Josh Inglis recorded their respective centuries before the bowlers bundled out Sri Lanka for 165 and 247, with Nathan Lyon and Matthew Kuhnemann sharing 16 wickets.

The second test will also be played in Galle from February 6th. This will be Karunaratne’s 100th career test match and his last as well. He will become only the 7th Sri Lankan to play 100 test matches.

Dimuth Karunaratne career stats:

Dimuth Karunaratne, whose last ODI outing was in November 2023, has been a regular member of the test side for a long time. But amid a poor patch, he’s decided to retire.

The left-handed opener has managed only 182 runs in his last seven test matches with only one fifty to his name.

Karunaratne made his ODI debut in 2011 and test debut in 2012, also in Galle. In 99 test matches, Karunaratne has scored 7172 runs at an average of 39 and registered 16 centuries and 39 fifties. He scored 1316 ODI runs at an average of 31 with one century and 11 half-centuries.

His highest test score is 244, which he struck against Bangladesh in 2021 in Kandy.

Karunaratne also captained Sri Lanka in 17 ODIs and 30 tests between 2019 and 2023.

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