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On This Day in 2011 – Paul Collingwood announces retirement from Test cricket

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Paul Collingwood announced his retirement from Test cricket in 2011 on the morning of the fourth day of the final Ashes Test against Australia in Sydney.

Durham batter Collingwood, then aged 34, chose a watershed moment to call time on his 68-Test career, with England having confirmed they were regaining the trophy and on the verge of completing an outright Ashes series victory in Australia for the first time in 24 years.

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