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Allrounder used to be phase of the India aspect that reached the 2005 World Cup closing in opposition to Australia in SA
Rumeli Dhar has played 100 global games for India • Annesha Ghosh
Rumeli Dhar, the India seam-bowling allrounder, has launched her retirement from global cricket, on the age of 38.
Dhar played her closing global match in the tri-nation girls’s T20I sequence between India, Australia and England, at Brabourne in 2018. In all, she featured in four Exams, 78 ODIs, and 18 T20Is, scoring 1328 runs and taking 84 wickets across formats. She used to be moreover phase of the India team that had reached the 2005 World Cup closing in South Africa, the place they lost to Australia by 98 runs. She used to be moreover the joint-highest wicket-taker for India in the 2009 T20 World Cup in England, with six strikes in four games at an financial system fee of 4.78.
“23 years of my cricket profession that started from Shyamnagar in West Bengal, has in the waste reach to an terminate as I instruct my retirement from all types of cricket,” Dhar posted on Instagram.
“The trip has been a extended one with highs and lows. The high used to be representing the Indian Ladies’s cricket team, taking half in the World Cup closing in 2005 as smartly as main the Ladies in Blue. A string of accidents plagued my profession however I at all times reach again stronger to originate it depend. Today as I divulge adieu to the sport I in fact contain at all times preferred, I thank my family, the BCCI, my mates, the teams I represented (Bengal, Railways, Air India, Delhi, Rajasthan and Assam) for believing in my abilities and giving me the chance to play for his or her teams. They helped pave my methodology towards the India team.
“Each and each match in this extended profession taught me a lesson that can assist in my second innings. Luxuriate in all journeys, mine will terminate as a cricketer on the unique time, however I promise to be connected with the sport and assist nurture young abilities in the country, giving again to the sport in every methodology imaginable.”
“Thanking all people for me who has been there thru all my usaand downs, all individuals who has preferred me, my recreation, pushed me once I wanted essentially the most, cheered me at my worst, laughed with me, scolded me once I wanted. I owe each one among you for every thing I am on the unique time.
“Today I am working out of the phrases to particular the feeling that is within. Factual are searching for to thank all people for being there for me…and giving me a lot enjoy all these years!”
Having made her global debut in 2003, in opposition to England in Lincoln, Dhar made an now not likely comeback, to the Indian team on the age of 34, when she used to be referred to as up to India’s T20 squad for his or her tour of South Africa in February 2018.