Delhi: The new news is that West Indies cricketer Nicolas Puran has retired from international cricket at the age of just 29 years. Seeing the record of 1983 runs in 61 ODIs and 2275 runs in 106 T20 International, it would be right to call him a white ball cricket cricketer. The specialist cricketer of white ball cricket, who is becoming a fraternity, was a special name in it. Cricket Pandit says that Test cricket is real cricket but Puran did not play a single Test.
The first was played in T20 International 2016 and the first ODI in International 2019. The truth is that the last ODI was played in July 2023, that is, it has been almost two years to play any ODI international (2023 ODIs stopped the ODI after the West Indies in the World Cup qualifier). This means that only T20 International was playing and in that too, he refused to play in the West Indies T20I series against England. Playing his 100th T20 International in November last year, he said that he can play 100 and T20 Internationals right now. Played only 6 and T20 Internationals and now applied a brake on it too.
This is not just a matter of Puran. The fraternity of the T20 cricket specialist is being prepared. The truth is that he never took interest in Test cricket. Played their first first class match in November 2014 and believe that there are only a few months left to complete 11 years and they have played only 5 first class matches. Out of that also played 3 matches in 2014 and 2 played in 2020. In comparison, 98 List A and 398 T20 played. IPL, LT20, CPL, The Hundred, Major League Cricket, BPL, SA20, BBL, Vitality Blast, PSL and Champions have played in T20. It is also not that they are leaving cricket with this retirement. How much of the international matches was playing, it has been understood and now this new decision has also removed the little pressure to play international matches. So what is this retirement?
The T20 league did almost three more cricketers in the last few days. Quinton de Kock, Glenn Maxwell and Heinrich Klassen have also retired but are not quitting playing cricket. Now there is no pressure to play for any kind of board team and the league is so much that you cannot play in everyone. The counting of T20 leagues in the world is increasing rapidly that the countries which are unable to form a good cricket team, are dreaming of organizing a T20 league thanks to money. That is why Puran is breaking ties with international cricket at the age of 29 years and Heinrich Klassen at the age of 33. The day is not far when the scale of any cricketer’s talent will also be counted for his T20 match and mention it for the team. Puran has played T20 for 18 teams so far.
At this time, there is a question mark on international cricket. Large tournaments of ICC are also unable to stop these cricketers. Now international cricket has started coming on the backfoot in the race compared to franchise cricket. Players are living more at home than before, even if the families are together, there is no restriction and money is more than international cricket. Look at Classen’s calendar: In IPL 2025 Sunrisers were in action for Hyderabad, Major has reached America to play in cricket and his name is coming in The Hundred’s publicity. The T20 League has almost finished the ODI attraction. Such a crowd of the league that also brought T10. If all this happens, how much will corruption be able to stop?
So Puran did what Gail, Pollard, Bravo, Russell and Sunil Narain did before them among the West Indies cricketers. It is not that the effect of this fire will not come on the ICC. If the big names are removed, the price of ICC media rights will fall. As a result, this ICC member board funding will be reduced. Franchise will become cricket and dominated.
Related news
(Tagstotranslate) Nicholas pooran