Lara to retire from one day cricket after the World Cup

St. George's, (Grenada) Apr 11 (UNI) Matches against Bangladesh and England will be my last two one day matches, West Indies skipper Brian Lara has said.

Lara will retire from one-day internationals after the World Cup.

''I think this is the end of my one-day career, for sure,'' Lara said.

''I honestly feel that my game is over and we should give it to one of the younger players. It's really tough playing one-day internationals out there,'' he said.

West Indies go to England for a tour in June and Lara said he would ''love to sit back and watch the team do well.'' He remarked ''I want to leave a team that plays better, and that is still my hope. These might be my last two one-day internationals but I still want to see the team moving out of this competition learning something from it and that's all I can hope for.'' Lara has played 297 ODIs and scored 10,354 runs at 40.60 with 19 hundreds and 63 half-centuries.

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