Fast bowler Shabnim Ismail has introduced her retirement from worldwide cricket, in a giant blow for current Twenty20 World Cup finalists South Africa.
The African nation had relied closely on the tempo and guile of the quickest bowler within the girls’s sport.
Ismail, 34, performed in 241 worldwide matches throughout one-day Internationals, Twenty20s and Tests, and final appeared in February’s World Cup-final loss to Australia at Newlands.
She broke the report for the quickest ball recorded in girls’s cricket throughout that event when she was clocked at 128 kph (80 mph) towards England within the semi-finals.
“After 16 years proudly representing my country, I have come to the difficult decision to retire from international cricket and move on to the next chapter of my life,” Ismail mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.
“I really believe that reducing the amount of cricket I play will enable me to do this, and playing in global leagues is the only way I see to be able to fit in both family and cricket.”
Ismail’s 191 wickets in ODIs is second solely to India’s Jhulan Goswami (255) on the all-time checklist.
Her retirement follows that of a trio of South African stalwarts from the final 15 years in former captains Dane van Niekerk and Mignon du Preez, and batter Lizelle Lee.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
