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EAST LONDON, South Africa, March 15 (Reuters) - Andy Flower has announced he will retire from international cricket after Zimbabwe's Word Cup Super Six match against Sri Lanka in East London.

The wicketkeeper-batsman's impending retirement has been an open secret for several weeks, but Zimbabwe's highest run-scorer in both Test and one-day cricket has fought shy of confirming it himself.

"Saturday will be my last game for Zimbabwe," Flower told Reuters at the team hotel on Friday.

"I'm not sure how emotional it will be. It's very sad that it will be my last game.

Zimbabwe cricket has been a huge part of my life for the last 15 years or more.

I feel sad about leaving it and leaving some of my good mates like my brother (Grant) and Alistair Campbell. "But I suppose we all have to move on and for me and my family it's time to move on."

Flower and team mate Henry Olonga made international headlines last month when they took the field for Zimbabwe's opening World Cup match against Namibia wearing black armbands "to mourn the death of democracy" in Zimbabwe.

Flower, a wicketkeeper-batsman for most of his career before handing over the gloves to help groom Tatenda Taibu as his successor, played 63 Tests, making 4,794 runs and averaging a world-class 51.54.

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