Lasith Malinga plays 2 matches in 2 countries in 12 hours, scalps 10 wickets - WATCH

Malinga, who is Sri Lanka's ODI captain, had decided to play the provincial ODI tournament despite Sri Lanka Cricket allowing him to be available for IPL for the entire month of April

Veteran speedster Lasith Malinga has set a new benchmark at the age of 35. While the Indian team management is closely monitoring the workload of its pacers, the Lankan quick played two matches in two different countries in 12-hour time and scalped 10 wickets. Playing for the Mumbai Indians (MI), Malinga scalped three crucial wickets against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Wednesday night.

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A few hours later, he took the morning flight, landed in Colombo and then travelled to Kandy to play Sri Lanka's domestic Super Four tournament. After his magical figures of 3/34 against CSK, the 35-year-old scalped 7 wickets for Galle against Kandy and wrote a new chapter in the record books of the gentlemen’s game. Galle beat Kandy by 156 runs in the match and it was a vintage Malinga performance as the only time he got a bit of rest was when Galle batted first and scored 255. The sleep-deprived Malinga then rocked the Kandy line-up with figures of 9.5-0-49-7 with the opposition team being led by another current international Dimuth Karunaratne. Malinga, who is Sri Lanka's ODI captain, had decided to play the provincial ODI tournament despite Sri Lanka Cricket allowing him to be available for IPL for the entire month of April. The reason for Malinga playing the tournament is to have a closer look at some of the World Cup hopefuls. Even though both the matches are domestic in nature, there aren't many available instances where a player has played two matches on successive days across two countries.