Nicholas pooran retires: West Indies batsman Nicholas Puran has said goodbye to his nine -year international career. In the T20 batting rankings, West Indies batsman Puran was thanked by Cricket West Indies for his service in a statement on Monday. Puran last played for the West Indies in December 2024.
Cricket West Indies said in a statement on Monday on Nicholas Puran’s retirement from international cricket, “We salute his achievements and thank him for the moments given to the region and beyond fans.” We wish him all the best in the next phase of his journey. The T20I (106 matches) has the highest match players for their team and the highest run -scorer for their team in this format (2275). He overtook Chris Gayle in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Let us tell you that Puran represented West Indies 167 times for the West Indies, with a strike rate of 99.15 at an average of 39.66, scored 1983 ODI runs, and scored 2275 T20 runs at a strike rate of 136.39, the highest by a West Indies player.
Puran, who is seen as a possibility in his teenage, represented the West Indies in the 2014 Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup, started his senior international career in T20I against Pakistan two years later. After this, he made his ODI debut in 2018 and the left -handed player was included in the West Indies Cricket World Cup 2019 team.
Puran was named the vice-captain of the Caribbean team for the 2021 Men’s T20 World Cup, and in 2022, in the six-month period, both white ball formats took over the reins of captaincy, including the team’s men’s T20 World Cup campaign.