A million dollar farewell party

Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardane are loved by millions of cricket fans. They are gentle off the field but ferocious warriors on it. The ICC T20 World Cup ongoing in Dhaka, Bangladesh will be a fitting farewell to those legendary batting arms. May the best team win!!!
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If Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Indians win,
they will become the first team to hold all three major limited-overs
titles, having won the 50-over World Cup in 2011 and the Champions
Trophy last year.

Sri Lanka will seek an end to an inexplicable
losing streak in title matches, after being beaten twice in World Cup
finals in 2007 and 2011 and the World Twenty20 finals in 2009 and 2012.

A
fitting farewell to veterans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene in
their last T20 international game and a million-dollar winning bonus
offered by officials back home will further inspire the Sri Lankans.
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regards

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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Brown Pundits Archive