Two-time World Cup winner and one of many fashionable cricket greats Steve Smith introduced his retirement from one-day worldwide cricket on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) after captaining Australia to a semi-final exit on the Champions Trophy.
“Now is a great opportunity for people to start preparing for the 2027 World Cup, so it feels like the right time to make way,” Smith mentioned in a Cricket Australia assertion.
The Australian batter additional added that he’ll stay obtainable for Test and T20I choice.
“There have been so many amazing times and wonderful memories. Winning two World Cups was a great highlight, along with the many fantastic teammates who shared the journey,” he mentioned in a press release.
Smith ends his ODI profession with 170 appearances, making him the nation’s Sixteenth-most-capped males’s participant within the 50-over format and the Twelfth-highest runs scorer with 5800 runs and a strike fee of 86.96 within the format.
Published – March 05, 2025 12:03 pm IST
