{"id":171876,"date":"2025-06-10T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171876\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:06:13","slug":"nicholas-pooran-west-indies-batter-retires-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171876\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pooran: West Indies batter retires from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Pooran, one of the world’s leading T20 batters, has retired from international duty with West Indies aged 29.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Trinidadian has played 167 times for West Indies, but the decision will allow him to concentrate on playing in lucrative franchise leagues.<\/p>\n

He had already skipped the ongoing T20 series against England to rest following his time playing for Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League (IPL).<\/p>\n

He also has deals in Major League Cricket (MLC) and The Hundred this summer.<\/p>\n

Cricket West Indies said, external<\/a>: “We salute his achievements and thank him for the moments he has given fans across the region and beyond.<\/p>\n

“We wish him all the very best in the next phase of his journey.”<\/p>\n

While Pooran is not the first player to retire from internationals in favour of franchise leagues – South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen<\/a> did so last week – his decision is one of the most significant, given his age and profile.<\/p>\n

West Indies captain Shai Hope was asked about Pooran’s decision to skip the England series last week but said that decision would not impact his future selection.<\/p>\n

It is understood Pooran told West Indies of his retirement on Monday.<\/p>\n

He last played for West Indies in December 2024 in T20s against Bangladesh, but has not played an ODI since July 2023 and does not play Tests.<\/p>\n

Pooran is the most capped West Indian in T20 internationals with 106, and the leading T20I run-scorer with 2,275.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pooran, one of the world’s leading T20 batters, has retired from international duty with West Indies aged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656862763654015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}