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Sri Lankan left-arm fast bowler Chaminda Vaas is to retire from Test cricket after the third Test against Pakistan, which begins on Monday 20th July.
Vaas, 35, has played 110 Tests for his country as well as 321 One-Day Internationals, and he was recalled for the third and final match against Pakistan after speculation last month that he had already retired.
Sri Lanka have already sealed the series with two victories in the first two matches.
"I am officially retiring from Test cricket after the third Test against Pakistan, but will continue playing one-day and Twenty20 matches till the 2011 World Cup," Vaas told reporters ahead of the match in Colombo.
He is only the third Sri Lankan, after Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan to play in 100 Tests and in addition to his 354 Test wickets at an average of 29.40, he has scored 3085 runs including an unbeaten 100 against Bangladesh in June 2007, the fourth time in his first-class career that he passed three figures.
He remains marooned on 399 ODI wickets for Sri Lanka having not played an ODI since August 2008 althouth the one wicket he took playing for the Asian Cricket Council XI means he did at least reach the 400 mark against India in Colombo in August.
Vaas was part of Sri Lanka's squad that won the 1996 World Cup, taking the wicket of Mark Waugh in the final while he was also playing when Sri Lanka finished as runners-up to Australia in 2007.
He was then not selected in Sri Lanka's 2009 ICC World Twenty20 squad when they again finished as runners-up, this time to Pakistan at Lord's.
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