The dynamic English batter, Dawid Malan announced his retirement for the international cricket with immediate effect.
The 37-year old played his last match during England’s disastrous 2023 ODI World Cup which was held in India. Since then, he was omitted from the side. The former T20I No.1 batter is one of the two England batter who’ve scored centuries in all forms of the game.
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‘Test cricket was always the pinnacle for me growing up,’ Malan told The Times. ‘At times I played well but in between just wasn’t good enough or consistent enough, which was disappointing because I felt I was a better player than that. Then again, I exceeded all expectations of myself in white-ball formats.
‘I took all three formats extremely seriously, but the intensity of Test cricket was something else: five days plus the days building up. I’m a big trainer; I love hitting lots of balls, and I’d train hard during the build-up. The days were long and intense. You can’t switch off.
‘I found it very mentally draining, especially the long Test series that I played, where my performances dropped off from the third or fourth Test onwards.’
He ascended to the ICC Men’s T20I No. 1 ranking in 2020 and became the fastest player to amass 1,000 runs in T20Is, achieving the milestone in just 24 innings. Despite a groin tear during the T20 World Cup 2022, which sidelined him for the knockout stages, he contributed to England’s victorious T20 World Cup campaign in Australia.
Malan scored 1074 runs in 22 Test matches, 1450 runs in 30 ODIs, and 1892 runs in 62 T20Is.
