Batter calls time on England having not featured since 50-over World Cup in 2023
\n London
\nDawid Malan, England\u2019s former No.1-ranked T20I batter, has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 37.
\nMalan, who played 22 Tests, 30 ODIs and 62 T20Is, is one of only two England men\u2019s batters (alongside Jos Buttler) to have made centuries in all three international formats. However, he had not featured in an England squad since the 50-over World Cup in India last year, and confirmed his decision after his omission from the forthcoming white-ball series against Australia. \u201cIt has been an incredible journey since July 2017,\u201d Malan said. \u201cI am so grateful to have had the opportunity to play for England in all three formats.
\n\u201cCricket, like most sports, is an industry where almost everyone eventually retires wishing they had done that little bit more. Whether you\u2019ve played ten Tests or 100, many step away regretting not playing just one more, scoring a few more runs, or winning more trophies.
\n\u201cRight now, as I retire from international cricket, I can say I am genuinely satisfied. It has not been easy. It may be my nature, but for whatever reason, it has always seemed that I had something to prove and often felt as if I was playing for my place. The pressure goes with the territory, but it does take a mental and physical toll. Even so, I look back with pride on what I have been able to achieve.\u201d
\nDespite announcing himself with a free-flowing innings of 78 from 44 on his T20I debut against South Africa in 2017, Malan\u2019s initial breakthrough with England came on the following winter\u2019s Ashes tour, where he made his only Test hundred, 140 from 227 balls, in partnership with Jonny Bairstow at Perth.
\nHowever, it was in the T20I format that he truly made his name, most particularly in the aftermath of England\u2019s ODI World Cup victory in 2019, when he forced his way into the team\u2019s 20-over plans through his sheer weight of run-making, including a 48-ball hundred at Napier on that winter\u2019s tour of New Zealand.
\nIn September 2020, he reached the top of the ICC\u2019s batting rankings for T20I cricket, and the following March, he became the fastest men\u2019s player to reach 1000 runs in the format, from just 24 innings, all but one of which had been at least double-figures. He was also a T20 World Cup winner in Australia in 2022, although he missed the knock-out stages after tearing his groin in the field against Sri Lanka.
\nDue to the success of the 50-over squad, Malan took longer to break into the ODI team\u2013despite the prevailing sense that it was the format for which he was best suited, with his tendency to begin an innings cautiously before unfurling his full range of strokes at the back end often attracting criticism during his T20I performances.
\nNevertheless, he seized his chance when it came, scoring five ODI hundreds in the space of 15 innings between June 2022 and September 2023, to make an unequivocal case to replace England\u2019s incumbent opener, Jason Roy, in the 2023 World Cup squad. He then added a sixth hundred in the second match of the tournament to guide England to victory over Bangladesh in Dharamsala, but he could not survive the fall-out from the team\u2019s disappointing overall campaign.
\nSpeaking to The Times, Malan said that he had \u201cexceeded all expectations of myself in white-ball formats\u201d, but admitted that his inability to forge a more consistent Test career would be a regret. Ten of his 22 appearances came on consecutive tours of Australia in 2017-18 and 2021-22, where his average of 33.00 is bettered only by Alastair Cook, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow among regular England performers of the past decade. However, he never played the format again after England\u2019s 146-run defeat at Hobart in January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Batter calls time on England having not featured since 50-over World Cup in 2023 London Dawid Malan, England\u2019s former No.1-ranked T20I batter, has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 37. Malan, who played 22 Tests, 30 ODIs and 62 T20Is, is one of only two England men\u2019s batters (alongside Jos Buttler) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-427778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n