Jhulan Goswami retires from T20Is
The 35-year-old veteran cricketer made her debut on January 6, 2002, against England.
Veteran Indian woman pacer Jhulan Goswami called it quit from the shortest format of the game on Thursday. She played 68 T20Is for India and scalped up 56 wickets including a five-wicket haul against Australia in 2012.
The 35-year-old veteran cricketer made her debut on January 6, 2002, against England. In her career so far, she has represented India in 10 Tests and 169 ODIs. She is currently the leading wicket-taker in the women’s ODI format and also the first woman cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets.
BREAKING: India Women's veteran quick Jhulan Goswami has announced she is retiring from T20Is with immediate effect.
— ICC (@ICC) August 23, 2018
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Goswami's memorable Test performance came against England at Taunton in 2006, where she took five wickets in each innings to finish with match figures of 10 for 78 to help India to a famous series victory.
She bagged the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Women’s Cricketer of the Year award in 2007, the first Indian player to win it. In 2010, she received the Arjuna Award and two years later, became only the second woman cricketer to be conferred the Padma Shri, after Diana Edulji.
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