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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

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

Tim Murtagh will retire at the end of the season.

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legend

Won't be too far off his state pension.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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