Shoaib Malik has announced that the current Test match against England at Sharjah will be his last. In a shock announcement at the close of the third day’s play, an emotional Malik said that the “time was right” to move on, only three matches after his five-year exile from the Test team had come to an end. Now below get complete details of Shoaib Malik Announces Retirement From Test Cricket.
Shoaib Malik Announces Retirement From Test Cricket
“We have some good youngsters and now is the time to retire,” he said. “Family comes first. I want to focus on the 2019 World Cup.”
Malik made a dramatic return to the fray in the first Test at Abu Dhabi last month. Called in to the team as a late replacement for the injured Azhar Ali, he made a career-best 245 in his first appearance since the Edgbaston Test against England in 2010.
However, his scores have fallen away since that innings, with scores of 0, 2, 7 and 0 in his next four innings, the latest duck coming today as he was trapped lbw by a big inswinger from James Anderson.
Shoaib Malik Batting Records
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 34 | 58 | 6 | 1860 | 245 | 35.76 | 4063 | 45.77 | 3 | 8 | 234 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| ODIs | 227 | 204 | 31 | 5990 | 143 | 34.62 | 7450 | 80.40 | 8 | 34 | 503 | 76 | 78 | 0 |
| T20Is | 65 | 61 | 14 | 1077 | 57* | 22.91 | 1002 | 107.48 | 0 | 3 | 86 | 19 | 27 | 0 |
| First-class | 122 | 191 | 20 | 6265 | 245 | 36.63 | 16 | 29 | 62 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 324 | 282 | 49 | 9152 | 143 | 39.27 | 15 | 56 | 127 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 207 | 195 | 55 | 5382 | 95* | 38.44 | 4337 | 124.09 | 0 | 35 | 434 | 147 | 84 | 0 |
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 34 | 41 | 2563 | 1460 | 25 | 4/42 | 4/94 | 58.40 | 3.41 | 102.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 227 | 180 | 7055 | 5370 | 147 | 4/19 | 4/19 | 36.53 | 4.56 | 47.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 65 | 29 | 380 | 422 | 21 | 2/7 | 2/7 | 20.09 | 6.66 | 18.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 122 | 14702 | 7248 | 248 | 7/81 | 29.22 | 2.95 | 59.2 | 9 | 1 | |||
| List A | 324 | 12061 | 9009 | 286 | 5/35 | 5/35 | 31.50 | 4.48 | 42.1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 207 | 129 | 2170 | 2527 | 103 | 5/13 | 5/13 | 24.53 | 6.98 | 21.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Source : Espncricinfo.com
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