After 267 games, 335 wickets, 1,864 runs, 19 years, four Ashes victories and three in World Cups, Katherine Sciver-Brunt has announced her retirement from international cricket. The decision continues the seamer’s gradual withdrawal from cricket – the 37-year-old left England’s Test side last summer to prioritise the white-ball game, retired from regional and county cricket in January and announced in February, after England lost to South Africa in the T20 World Cup semi-finals, that she had played her last global tournament – and means her active involvement is now limited to the Hundred.
She made her international debut in 2004 at the age of 19 and retires as England’s leading wicket-taker in ODIs, with 170, and T20s, with 114, while she ranks third in Tests with 51. “I thought I’d never be able to reach this decision but I have and it’s been the hardest one of my life,” she said. “I never had any dreams or aspirations to do what I’ve done, I only ever wished to make my family proud of me. And what I’ve achieved has gone way beyond that.”
