Responding to questions about the retirement of Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara before the World T20 championship, Mahela tweeted that he and Sanga had retired giving enough time to build a new team.
Responding to a comment that Mahela and Sanga had left at the same time without thinking of the consequences for the team, Mahela twitted: “We both left the T20 team two years ago giving enough time to build a team, we can't play forever".