South Africa quick bowler Shabnim Ismail introduced her retirement from worldwide cricket on Wednesday.
Regarded as one of many quickest bowlers in girls’s cricket, Ismail has featured in 241 worldwide matches, choosing up 317 wickets.
Ismail’s final look for South Africa was within the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup closing towards the eventual champion Australia, on house soil in February this yr.
The right-arm quick bowler made her worldwide debut in an ODI towards Pakistan in January 2007 in Pretoria, and ended up choosing 191 wickets in 127 matches with a notable economic system price of three.70. Her finest figures of six for 10 got here towards Netherlands in 2011.
Ismail is the second-highest wicket-taker within the format, solely bettered by India’s Jhulan Goswami (255 wickets). Ismail additionally grabbed the joint-most Women’s ODI wickets taken in a single calendar yr, with 37 scalps in 2022, together with 14 on the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
Ismail additionally bagged 123 T20I wickets from 113 appearances, the fourth-highest general, with a strike-rate of 19.30.
Ismail has featured in 4 50-over World Cups between 2009-2022 in addition to in all eight Women’s T20 World Cups, starting with the 2009 version
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com