The retirement thread

[Durhamfootman]

Dane Vilas scores 124 and promptly announces that his retirement starts today instead of the end of the season as planned

I guess he wanted to go out on a high

[Durhamfootman]

Steve Davies is retiring at the end of the season. I always felt that he didn't play as much cricket as he should have done

[Slipstream]

Tim Murtagh will retire at the end of the season.

https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/cou ... eason.html

[Durhamfootman]

legend

[Arthur Crabtree]

Won't be too far off his state pension.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Alastair Cook at 38. One of England's greatest run scorers. Arguably their best ever bat in Asia.

Hopefully he's got something more productive lined up than the BBC commentary box.

[Durhamfootman]

Capt Steely, a worthy career

going to turn out for the farmers XI seemingly, which might be more productive than any contribution he has to make on the BBC highlights programmes

[Arthur Crabtree]

Big negative on his record was his ODI career. Not just as a bat, but a captain. He and Moores sucked the hope out of them.

Poor captain generally. But one of the great England openers.

[andy]

:bye farewell chef thanks for everything!! Especially the last 5 years for Essex will be sorely missed!

[bigfluffylemon]

David Willey announces his retirement from international cricket after being overlooked for a central contract.

Fair enough decision, though I tend to agree that he's been treated pretty poorly by the management.

[bigfluffylemon]

Meg Lanning, one of the greats of the modern women's game, announces her retirement

[GarlicJam]

Definitely one of the greats. Huge respect for Lanning.

She has achieved everything, over and again. World cups galore, record winning streaks, record scores. Admittedly this was during a period of Australian dominance, but a lot of that is down to her leadership - and also her contribution to a dominant batting line-up.

I have no doubt she is going to be successful at whatever she moves onto once her domestic cricket career is over. She strikes me as a very considered and intelligent person.

[Durhamfootman]

best batter in womens cricket by a country mile at her peak. Pretty flawless record as a captain too. Australia were very lucky to have her

[andy]

You knew after the second break she took this was coming...farewell to a great of the women's game!