Matthew Wade Retires from International Cricket

Aditi Singh October 29, 2024

Matthew Wade Retires

Matthew Wade Retires : Till date, Australia cricket team has won the T20 World Cup only one time, which was in 2021. That was when he was one of the major heroes for that tournament. Recently it is in news that the international cricket of Matthew Wade is going to leave this world. He has been a player of all format of the Australia cricket. He also made his teammates win several matches due to his batting skills.

Match-Winning Performance in Semi-Final T20 World Cup 2021

Matthew Wade has represented Australia in T20I, where he played his debut match back in 2011. Till now, he has scored runs in 92 innings and the three half-centuries were included in that. The batting of Matthew Wade when it seemed that all was over for Australia during the Pakistan match at the semi-final of the 2021 T20 World Cup would remain long in the memory of cricket lovers. He then struck three consecutive sixes off the last over by Shaheen Afridi. Two fours and four sixes aggregated to 41 runs in 17 balls.

36 Test matches. 97 ODIs. 92 T20 Internationals.

Congratulations to Matthew Wade on an outstanding international cricket career! pic.twitter.com/SDWl1OhqZC
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) October 29, 2024

T20 Series Against Pakistan: Promoted to Fielding Coach

Though he has gone on record about retirement, Wade is sure to appear for Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes in white-ball cricket apart from a few leagues overseas. He also took up, at retirement, full-time coaching and now comes on board as wicket-keeping as well as fielding coach for the Pakistan series of T20s.

Wade said he has done all right the past couple of years, but he was batting at number seven, which was where they wanted him to continue his finishing role. He was pretty much convinced that time had come to stop playing after Australia lost the T20 World Cup to India.

A 13-Year Career Ends

Wade said he would close his curtains on an international career that will stretch into thirteen years. The number of Tests played was 36 wherein he amassed runs in excess of 1,613 and he added a total of four hundred ones. For ODIs he played 92 to produce 1,867 runs and he had normally faced crisis of form for going inside and coming outside of the eleven for most parts. Even recently he appeared to feature in an ODI as well as in a Test in 2021.