File photograph of England’s Katherine Sciver-Brunt. Sciver-Brunt introduced her retirement from international profession after an outstanding 19-year profession wherein she took extra wickets than some other lady for England.
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Katherine Sciver-Brunt retired from international cricket on May 5 after an outstanding 19-year profession wherein she took extra wickets than some other lady for England.
Sciver-Brunt, who made her international debut in 2004, amassed 335 wickets in 267 appearances for England.
The quick bowler helped England’s girls to 3 Ashes sequence victories and three World Cup wins, two coming in ODIs and one in T20s.
Only India’s Jhulan Goswami (355) has extra dismissals than Sciver-Brunt in all girls’s international codecs.
Sciver-Brunt, 37, stop taking part in Tests final yr and in addition stepped away from ODIs.
She has now elected to stroll away from England altogether, regardless of considering staying on for the T20 portion of this summer time’s multi-format Ashes sequence.
“Well here I am, 19 years later, at the end of my international journey,” she mentioned. “I thought I’d never be able to reach this decision but I have and it’s been the hardest one of my life.
“I never had any dreams or aspirations to do what I’ve done, I only ever wished to make my family proud of me. And what I’ve achieved has gone way beyond that.”
Sciver-Brunt’s final England look got here within the T20 World Cup semi-final defeat in opposition to hosts South Africa in February.
‘Legend’
“I have so much to be thankful for, cricket has given me a purpose, a sense of belonging, security, many golden memories and best friends that will last a lifetime,” Sciver-Brunt added.
“It has been a huge honour representing England for so long and I’d like to thank all of the England cricket family past and present for making my time a special one.”
She additionally paid tribute to her associate Nat Sciver-Brunt, the England all-rounder, saying: “Of the trophies and titles I could have wished to achieve, I have reached them all, but my greatest achievement is the happiness that I have found in Nat.”
Clare Connor, the managing director of England girls’s cricket, mentioned Sciver-Brunt bowed out of the international recreation as a “legend of our sport”.
“Katherine has done so much for the game of cricket and for women’s cricket in particular,” mentioned Connor, a former England captain.
“She has been an unbelievable role-model, giving us everything she has for nearly 20 years.
“Katherine began her career in a completely different era from the one we are in now and we owe her a debt of gratitude for the part she has played in progressing our game, raising standards and bringing a new audience to women’s cricket.
“She is quite simply a legend of our sport.”
Sciver-Brunt, usually thought-about a bowling all-rounder after amassing 1,864 international runs, had already stepped away from regional cricket however will play yet one more season in The Hundred.
