Pakistan batter Asad Shafiq retires from all kinds of cricket
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Asad Shafiq, the previous Pakistan Check middle-order batter, has introduced his retirement from all kinds of cricket and is predicted to soak up a place as a countrywide selector.
Shafiq, 37, was once a core a part of the Misbah-ul-Haq Check aspect within the 2010s, taking part in a very important position of their upward push to the highest of the Check scores in August 2016. He introduced his retirement on Sunday, after captaining the Karachi Whites aspect to the Nationwide T20 identify, beating Abbotabad within the ultimate in Karachi. He has agreed to play 3 video games for his division aspect SNGPL (Sui Northern Fuel Pipelines) within the returning Patron’s Trophy – the top quality event for division groups – as a result of they’ll be lacking a number of avid gamers away on Check responsibility. However successfully, the T20 ultimate was once his farewell.
Shafiq performed the final of his 77 Assessments for Pakistan in 2020, just about 10 years after his debut. He were a typical at the home circuit since, despite the fact that he stated after the overall that he was once now not feeling as enthusiastic about the sport as he used to.
“I am now not feeling that pleasure and fervour that I did after I first began taking part in the sport,” he stated. “I sought after to thank all those that have helped me via my profession.
“After being dropped in 2020 I saved on taking part in home cricket for 3 years within the hope of having some other crack on the Pakistan workforce. However earlier than the beginning of this season, I had determined this may be my final season as a result of I felt that final in on 38 years of age this was once time to retire as an alternative of folks telling me to step down.”
Along Misbah, Younis Khan and Azhar Ali, Shafiq shaped a center order that was once the bedrock of a lot of Pakistan’s luck, particularly throughout their years of exile within the UAE. He ended his profession with 4660 runs at a median of 38.19, despite the fact that in his highest levels it hovered close to the mid-40s. That was once a serve as in part of him taking part in the vast majority of his Assessments at No. 6, as a bridge between the engine room and a perennially fragile decrease order. Famously, he has the maximum Check loads from that place; he went previous Sir Garry Sobers’ document after one in every of his maximum memorable centuries, a 137 on the Gabba that almost took Pakistan house in a mammoth chase of 490.
That hundred got here quickly after his 109 at The Oval, in a win that no longer handiest levelled the sequence but additionally took Pakistan to the highest of the Check scores. Shafiq had made his global debut in England, within the fast aftermath of the 2010 spot-fixing scandal, taking part in his first ODIs on that excursion and his first Check in November that 12 months, as Misbah took over as captain. “It was once reasonably tough after the 2010 incident and we needed to win the agree with of the general public again,” he stated.
A long run as a selector in Wahab Riaz’s new-look committee now awaits, as Shafiq waits for his contract to be finalised.
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