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Shashikala Siriwardene bids farewell with “Player of the Match” award in final WC T 20 encounter with Bangladesh By  Sunil Thenabadu – eLanka Sports editor Sri Lanka woman’s cricket team’s ICC T/20 World Cup campaign ended on Monday with a comprehensive win by nine wickets over Bangladeshi women at the Junction Oval in central Melbourne. Shashikala Siriwardena,former skipper and the first superstar of the Sri Lankan Woman’s cricket team, had already decided to end her 17-year long international career after this WC encounter. . Shashikala Siriwardena captured four wickets in this last encounter of hers for just 16 runs in her quota of four overs with her off spinners, for which she was adjudicated as  the “Player of the Match”.At the podium after receiving her award she spoke impeccably well bidding farewell and thanking all who had helped her in her long career answering in eloquently in English to questions ...