Dan Christian announces retirement, ongoing BBL to be his last

Dan Christian, Australia’s most skilled T20 cricketer, introduced that he’ll be retiring after the present Big Bash League match, ending his 17-year-long profitable profession.

“Yesterday (Friday) at training I told Sydney Sixers teammates that I’ll be retiring from playing at the end of the BBL season,” the pace-bowling all-rounder, who will flip 40 in May this yr, posted on Twitter on Saturday.

The sixers have 4 extra matches and are assured two photographs at reaching the BBL last, having completed within the high two of the common season.

“Sydney Smash tonight, followed by our last round game against the Hurricanes, and then the finals,” stated the BBL veteran, who stays the one participant to have scored greater than 2000 runs and brought greater than 90 wickets, with a file 133 video games to his identify. He was additionally instrumental in Melbourne Renegades’ solely title success in 2019. With Sixers, he gained the 2020-21 title to make it 9 titles since 2010.

“Hopefully we can go all the way again this season, but regardless, it’s been a great run. I’ve achieved things and made some memories that I could only have dreamt of as a kid. I’m looking forward to now having the time to catch up with you all and not having to use the excuse ‘sorry, I’ve got cricket’,” Christian stated.

Earlier, Adam Zampa was speaking about calling it a profession in pink ball cricket after being omitted from the Test staff ser to tour India. 

For subsequent month’s India tour, nationwide choice chairman George Bailey and coach Andrew McDonald opted for Queensland leg-spinner Mitch Swepson as their solely choice. The different spinners within the facet are Ashton Agar, uncapped Todd Murphy and veteran Nathan Lyon. “I’m very disappointed, I would have loved to have been on it. I thought with the way that I’ve been going in international cricket in particular that this was going to be my opportunity (to play Test cricket),” Zampa was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

Christian has amassed 5809 runs and bagged 280 wickets from 405 T20s for 18 completely different groups, together with on the worldwide degree and in seven separate competitions. He additionally has performed 23 T20Is and 20 ODIs for Australia. 

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