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Dawid Malan: England batter retires from international cricket

Former World number one T20I batter Dawid Malan has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 36.

Left-hander Malan played 114 times across all formats for England, scoring eight centuries and 31 fifties at an average of almost 38 runs.

A debutant T20I man of the match on his debut in 2017, Malan scored his first Test century against Australia in the Ashes in December 2017 and became the fastest batter to 1,000 runs in the international white-ball format in March 2021, reaching the total in 24 innings.

Malan was part of the winning England squad who won the 2022 T20 World Cup but missed the semi-final and final through an injury he sustained during their final group-stage match.

Malan: Test cricket ‘something else’

Malan last played for England at the World Cup 2023, scoring 87 off 74 balls against the Netherlands and 50 from 64 deliveries against Australia.

“I took all three formats extremely seriously but the intensity of Test cricket was something else: five days plus the days building up,” Malan told former England captain Mike Atherton in The Times on the day his retirement became public.

“I’m a big trainer; I love hitting lots of balls and I’d train hard in the build-up, and then the days were long and intense.

“You can’t switch off. I found it very mentally draining, especially the long Test series that I played, where my performances dropped off from the third or fourth Test onwards.”

Malan: T20 ‘exceeded expectations’

“Test cricket was always the pinnacle for me growing up,” added Malan. “At times I played well but, in between, I just wasn’t good enough or consistent enough, which was disappointing because I felt I was a better player than that.

“Then again, I exceeded all expectations of myself in white-ball formats.”

Malan played for Middlesex from 2006 until 2019 after arriving in the county from South Africa, where his family had moved when he was seven, with “no family here, no friends, nothing”.

Yorkshire signed Malan in 2020, and he began to move into coaching at the club earlier this year.

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