Meg Lanning Retires From Worldwide Cricket: Australian Captain Meg Lanning has introduced her retirement from worldwide cricket and bringing the curtains down on her 13-year-long profession.

Meg Lanning Retires From Worldwide Cricket

Meg Lanning Retires From Worldwide Cricket: Meg Lanning made her debut in 2010 on the age of 18 years. Meg Lanning has performed 132 T20Is and 103 ODIs and in addition represented Australia in six Take a look at matches.

Lanning, who first led Australia in 2014, has been probably the most profitable captains in ladies’s cricket. Her file as captain contains 69 wins out of 78 ODIs, 76 wins in 100 T20Is and a Take a look at victory as effectively within the 4 Exams that she captained Australia.

A winner of two ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup trophies and 5 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup titles, Lanning retires on the age of 31 having amassed greater than 8000 runs throughout all codecs for her nation.

“The choice to step away from worldwide cricket was a troublesome one to make, however I really feel now’s the fitting time for me,” Lanning mentioned.

“I’ve been extremely lucky to get pleasure from a 13-year worldwide profession, however I do know now’s the fitting time for me to maneuver on to one thing new. Crew success is why you play the sport, I’m pleased with what I’ve been capable of obtain and can cherish the moments shared with teammates alongside the best way”.

“I’d wish to thank my household, my teammates, Cricket Victoria, Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Affiliation for his or her assist to permit me to play the sport I really like on the highest degree. I additionally need to say an enormous thanks to all of the followers who’ve supported me all through my worldwide profession”, she added.

Lanning additionally captained Delhi Capitals on the inaugural Ladies’s Premier League earlier this 12 months, ending as runners-up.

Praising her contributions to Australian cricket, Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley mentioned: “One of many most interesting cricketers Australia has produced, Meg’s supreme achievements with the bat have been matched by her inspiring management”.

“As among the best gamers on the earth over an extended time frame, Meg has made an immeasurable affect and led a era which has helped revolutionise the sport.

“Beneath Meg’s management, the Australian ladies’s cricket workforce has constructed a legacy of world dominance and has been on the forefront of rising the sport and galvanizing the following era of cricketers all all over the world”.

“A seven-time World Cup winner and Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, Meg retires from worldwide cricket having achieved every part there’s to attain and we thank her for the immense contribution she has made”.

“We look ahead to celebrating Meg’s distinguished worldwide profession at an acceptable time.”

Meg Lanning will proceed to play in home competitions, together with the Ladies’s Huge Bash League and the Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket League.