The “Bad-Boy” Andrew Symonds announces Retirement - Cricket News Update
The former Australian all-rounder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 has announced his retirement from all formats of cricket due to family reasons. "Effective immediately, I am retiring from all forms of professional cricket," Symonds said.
The 36-year-old star player will not be participating in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League either, where he was contracted to the Mumbai Indians, “It is with regret that I will not be able to fulfill my final year of the IPL with the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820
Indians. Mumbai Indians and the IPL have both been very supportive of me, but the impending arrival of my first child is a priority."
Andrew has represented http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in 198 ODIs, 26 Test matches and 14 T20s with numerous match winning performances. He mostly played as a middle-order batsman and a medium pacer, along with bowling the occasional off-break. He was also an exceptional athlete
on the field.
Symonds made his One Day International debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in March 2004, and went on to play in 26 matches where he scored
1,462 at an average of 40.61.
The all-rounder has not played any international cricket in over two years, after he fell out of favour over disciplinary issues. He was sent back during the 2009 T20 World Cup campaign, in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, for breaking the team’s drinking rules.
Symonds, then engaged himself in domestic cricket, when in 2010, he signed a Twenty20 contract with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851) and the Mumbai Indians as a T20 specialist.
The all-rounder, in his 13-year long career, had been involved in innumerable controversies. He was involved in allegations of racially taunting Indian spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, during the Sydney Test in January 2008, while he was also dismissed from the
series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, as he missed the team’s meeting.
In 2009, the player was banned from the South African tour, when he called New Zealand's http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129 a "lump of s**t" in a radio interview.
However, Symonds was an integral part of the Australian team that won two consecutive World Cups in 2003 and 2007, under the leadership of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377.
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