Tammy Beaumont will retire from international cricket at the top of England’s Test match against India, which starts on Friday.
The primary ever women’s Test at Lord’s will double as Beaumont’s farewell because the England opener calls time on a glittering profession.
The 35-year-old has made 260 appearances for England since her debut in 2009, and departs as England’s leading female ODI centurion with 12 a whole bunch to her name.
Beaumont is one in all only two English women – and five English players – to have scored a global century in all three formats of the sport, and was the primary English woman to record a double century when she made 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2023.
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Best honour
“Playing for England for nearly 17 years has been the best honour,” Beaumont said.
“After I fell in love with playing cricket as a young girl, I barely knew that playing cricket for England was an option and it brings me a lot joy to think how many ladies and boys have been inspired, this summer especially, and the way far the sport has are available in our country.
“We’ve all the time desired to take the cap forward for the following generation and the time has come for me handy over that privilege to the following generation of England players.
“This Test match at Lord’s – our first ever women’s Test at Lord’s – appears like the proper occasion to log out on a profession that I could never have dreamt could be as special because it has been.”
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Originals
Beaumont is among the many last of the ‘originals’ who got the primary batch of skilled contracts in the ladies’s game, with Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones the one others still energetic in the sport.
Those contracts got here in 2015, and two years later Beaumont earned player of the tournament honours as England lifted the Women’s World Cup on home soil after she topped the run-scoring charts with 410 runs.
Beaumont, who players for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, said she is going to proceed to play domestically.
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