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<h1>Kumar Sangakkara Leaves ODI Cricket</h1>
Kumar Sangakkara has offered goodbye to restricted overs cricket, baffled with a World Cup quarterfinal annihilation, yet upbeat that Sri Lanka were in a superior spot than when he came into the side in 2000.
The rich lefthander scored 45 runs against South Africa on Wednesday to take his competition count to 541, including his record four progressive hundreds of years, yet it never looked like sufficiently being as Sri Lanka were blown away at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
"It's frustrating to lose, however to win against a side like South Africa we need to do truly well," he said.
"In the event that you take our innings, it was a great deal of stop begins, yet a considerable measure of wickets falling together ... We weren't sufficient today.
"Somebody has became acquainted with in a quarterfinal. It's a do-or-kick the bucket circumstance. Frustrations are a piece of our vocation, and you simply go up against it the jaw and proceed onward."
The 37-year-old, who will keep playing tests, leaves having aggregated 14,234 one-day runs - second just to Indian incredible Sachin Tendulkar - and the best number of rejections by a wicketkeeper.
In spite of the fact that his trusts of playing in a third progressive World Cup last lastly winning one have been dashed, Sangakkara thinks the future for Sri Lankan cricket is brilliant.
"We have quite a few people in the changing area who might have taken in a considerable measure from this World Cup," he included.
"I think the group is in extraordinary hands. Angelo Mathews has been such a great pioneer right all through. We've had a couple of wounds this visit, yet in the event that you take a gander at the players we have, you can't however be certain about what's to come.
"I doubtlessly think Sri Lankan cricket has advanced a wide margin from where we began and from where I began, and I have no trepidation about the fate of Sri Lankan cricket. I think our gentlemen will do, exceptionally well."