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Ethan James

Wade to pull up stumps on red-ball cricket after final

Matthew Wade, with three-week-old son Duke, will retire from red-ball cricket after the final. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

Matthew Wade wants to be fit and firing for several more years of short-form cricket after deciding to pull-up stumps on his red-ball career following the Sheffield Shield final.

The 36-year-old announced his final first-class outing would be for Tasmania against Western Australia in the title-decider in Perth beginning Thursday.

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