1 hour ago England batter Tammy Beaumont has announced her status from planetary cricket.
The 35-year-old volition discontinue aft England's upcoming Test lucifer against India which starts connected Friday, which is the archetypal women's Test to beryllium played astatine Lord's.
Beaumont made her planetary debut successful 2009 and has played 11 Tests, 140 one-day internationals and 109 T20s.
Her 12 ODI hundreds are an England women's grounds and she is 1 of lone 2 English women, alongside erstwhile skipper Heather Knight, to people an planetary period successful each 3 formats.
"Playing for England for astir 17 years has been the top honour," said Beaumont.
"When I fell successful emotion with playing cricket arsenic a young girl, I hardly knew that playing cricket for England was an enactment and it brings maine truthful overmuch joyousness to deliberation however galore girls and boys person been inspired, this summertime especially, and however acold the crippled has travel successful our country.
"We've ever wanted to instrumentality the headdress guardant for the adjacent procreation and the clip has travel for maine to manus implicit that privilege to the adjacent procreation of England players.
"This Test lucifer astatine Lord's – our first-ever women's Test astatine Lord's – feels similar the cleanable juncture to motion disconnected connected a vocation that I could ne'er person dreamt would beryllium arsenic peculiar arsenic it has been."
Beaumont besides confirmed that she volition proceed playing home cricket. She presently plays for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix successful The Hundred.
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