The 2024 T20 World Cup will mark the end of the illustrious T20 careers of many cricket legends. As fans around the world bid farewell to these legends, we at Possible11 take a look at all the players who retired from their game after the tournament.
1. Virat Kohli
Amid the euphoria of India's 2024 T20 World Cup win, legendary batsman Virat Kohli announced his retirement from T20Is, thus ending his 125-match career on a high note. He played a brilliant innings of 76 runs off 59 balls in the T20 World Cup final, winning the 'Player of the Match' award and winning the coveted T20 trophy for the first time in his international career. Virat Kohli retired from T20I cricket with 4,188 runs; thus, becoming the second-highest run-scorer in the history of T20I cricket.
2. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma has also announced his retirement from the format after the 2024 event in the West Indies. The legendary opener hit consecutive match-winning half-centuries against Australia and England in the tournament, before recording a rare failure in the final against South Africa and ending his career with 4,231 runs, the most among all batsmen in T20I history. Rohit Sharma ended his career with the T20 World Cup trophy, becoming the second Indian captain after MS Dhoni to do so.
3. David Warner
Australia opener David Warner had set the 2024 T20 World Cup as his retirement date earlier this year. After retiring from ODIs with the 2023 World Cup win and bowing out of Tests with a series win over Pakistan in January, he failed to retire from T20Is in the same fashion as the Australian team lost to Afghanistan and India in the Super Eight stage. Nonetheless, David Warner's illustrious T20I career includes 3,277 runs, which is just a small part of his 19,000 international runs.
4. Ravindra Jadeja
India's Ravindra Jadeja called time on his T20I career after winning the 2024 World Cup. Jadeja, who played his first T20I match in February 2009, played 74 matches in his 20-over international career. The cricketer scored 515 runs with the bat and took 54 wickets with his left-arm spin bowling to become one of the greatest all-rounders in India's T20I history.
5. Trent Boult
New Zealand pacer Trent Boult played the last of his 61 T20 Internationals for New Zealand when he took the field against PNG in Trinidad in a Group C match of the 2024 T20 World Cup. While the 'Black Caps' suffered a humiliating defeat in the first round, the pacer impressed in the tournament with nine wickets in just four innings. Trent Boult, who was one of the leading wicket-takers during New Zealand's runner-up campaign in 2021, bid adieu to his T20I career with 83 wickets at an impressive average of 21.43.
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