Pooran Retires From International Cricket

West Indies batting star Nicholas Pooran has announced his retired from international cricket.

The 29 year old Pooran made the announcement on Instagram.

Pooran who’s the West Indies’ Twenty20 record-holder for runs and appearances, says wearing the maroon, standing for the anthem, and giving everything he had each time I stepped on the field, it’s hard to put into words what that truly means to him.

He says he’ll always keep close to his heart, the privilege of captaining the team.

Pooran was suspended briefly in late 2019 after admitting to ball-tampering against Afghanistan, and overcame that to be named West Indies T20 vice captain about 18 months later for a tour by Australia.

But he became captain when Kieron Pollard couldn’t play, and led the team to a 4-1 series win.

In 2022, he was named the permanent white-ball captain and took the team to that year’s T20 World Cup in Australia, but in a fallout from a first-round elimination he resigned.

Pooran played 106 T20s, scored 2,275 runs at an average of 26.14.

He also played 61 one-day internationals, including three centuries and one World Cup.