South Africa’s Mignon du Preez retires from ODI, Take a look at cricket
South Africa batter Mignon du Preez has introduced her retirement from take a look at and one-day world (ODI) cricket on the age of 32 however will proceed to play Twenty20s (T20s), the rustic’s cricket board (CSA) mentioned on Thursday.
Du Preez’s closing ODI look got here in a 137-run defeat to England within the Ladies’s Global Cup in March, through which she scored 30 runs. In all, she performed 154 ODI suits and holds the country’s ladies’s document in ODI runs (3,760), scored at a median of 32.98.
She additionally performed one take a look at for South Africa towards India in 2014 and captained the staff throughout all codecs between 2011 and 2016.
“I’ve been splendidly lucky to play in 4 ODI Global Cups so far,” Du Preez mentioned in a remark. “Those had been a few of my maximum valuable reminiscences in lifestyles. I might alternatively like to prioritise time with my circle of relatives and optimistically get started a circle of relatives of my very own quickly.
“I think South African ladies’s cricket is in an excessively wholesome state and the time is correct to step away and make allowance the following era of thrilling cricketers to keep growing this gorgeous recreation of ours.”
