5 Best Farewells in Recent Cricket History

#4 Tillakaratne Dilshan

Opener bows out

Dilshan was a late starter finding a permanent place in the Test side only after crossing 30. But the man who crossed 10000 ODI runs made his 87 Tests count as a dazzling opener with more than 5000 runs and 16 centuries. Dilshan played his last Test series against Bangladesh that Sri Lanka won 1-0 in March 2013.

He scored a half century and a century in the drawn penultimate Test, before scoring 57 in his last innings in a game that Sri Lanka won. Dilshan was fresh off a daddy hundred against a marauding Australia in Hobart, preceded by centuries in back to back Tests against Pakistan at home a few months before.

The retirement helped Dilshan focus on prolonging his ODI career thereby achieving legendary status becoming one of the select few batsmen to cross the hallowed 10000 mark.