The former England cricketer Dawid Malan has retired from international cricket at 37. The former No.1 T20I batter represented England in 22 Test matches, 30 ODIs, and 62 T20Is. He is one of only two England men’s players, along with Jos Buttler to have scored centuries in all three formats of the game.
The 37-year-old was not selected for the England team after the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 in India last year. Malan announced his retirement after he wasn’t chosen for the white-ball series against Australia.
Malan made an impressive start to international cricket by scoring 78 runs from 44 balls in his T20I debut against South Africa in 2017. One of his best innings was his only Test century in the 2017 Ashes series, where he made 140 runs from 227 balls with Jonny Bairstow in Perth.
In September 2020, he rose to the top of the ICC T20I rankings as the No. 1 batter and, by March, set the record as the quickest player to reach 1,000 runs in T20Is, doing so in only 24 innings. Malan sustained a groin injury while fielding against Sri Lanka during the 2022 T20 World Cup, causing him to miss the knockout rounds, but he remained a member of England’s championship-winning squad in Australia.
