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Lara confirms quitting ODIs

Grenada : West Indian captain Brian Lara has confirmed that he is retiring from the one-day format of the game.

``I think this is the end of my one-day career, for sure,'' Lara said after his team's loss to South Africa here on Tuesday.

``I honestly feel that my game is over and we should give it to one of the younger players. After the World Cup the next one-day tournament for the West Indies is in June in England and I would love to sit back and watch and see the team do well,'' he said.

Lara said he would like to see his team improve in one-day internationals.

``I want to leave a team that play 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. It's demoralising yes but I want to see certain things happen and I want to see the team move on,'' he said.

Lara has played 297 ODIs and scored 10,354 runs at 40.60 with 19 hundreds and 63 half-centuries. — PTI

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