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England nice Heather Knight will retire from worldwide cricket on the finish of this week’s Check match in opposition to India at Lord’s.
Knight, who has made a document 320 appearances for England, has joined team-mate Tammy Beaumont in calling time on her profession on the finish of what’s the first ladies’s Check match on the residence of cricket, and one through which England seem headed for defeat after a gruelling second day’s play on Saturday.
The 35-year-old made her England debut in 2010 and went on to captain the aspect on 199 events between 2016 and 2025, guiding the workforce to success on the ICC Girls’s World Cup on residence soil in 2017.
Nonetheless, Knight was sacked as captain in March final yr after a diabolical Ashes tour of Australia through which England had been trounced 16-0.
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Grateful
“I’m extraordinarily grateful and privileged to have gone on the journey that I’ve been on as an England cricketer,” Knight mentioned.
“It’s arduous to stroll away as a result of the dressing room and the individuals within the dressing room have been a relentless in my life for 16 years, and the reminiscences and the experiences and the individuals have helped form me change into who I’m at present, however I’m actually content material with this resolution and I’m actually excited for what’s subsequent.”
Knight, who grew to become the primary English participant to attain centuries in all three codecs of the sport when she made her first T20 hundred in Canberra in 2020, started this week’s check on 7,988 worldwide runs.
On Saturday she added solely six to that tally earlier than falling sufferer to Sayali Satghare as England had been bowled out for 170, ending the day 269 runs behind an India aspect who will resume on 154 for one on Sunday.
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Originals
Like Beaumont, who introduced earlier this week the Check match could be her final worldwide look, Knight is among the many final of the ‘originals’ who bought the primary batch {of professional} contracts within the ladies’s recreation.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones are the one others nonetheless energetic within the recreation.
“Rising up as somewhat lady from Devon and taking part in with the boys, I by no means thought I’d get to expertise this,” Knight added.
“It feels proper to depart the sport with this historic check at Lord’s. It’s been a tremendous 16 years and I really feel so fortunate.”
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