Malan retires from international cricket

England batter Dawid Malan has retired from world cricket astatine nan property of 36.

Malan is 1 of only 2 men, on pinch Jos Buttler, to people a period successful each 3 formats for England, having played successful 22 Tests, 30 one-day internationals and 62 T20s.

In 2020 he became nan world number one-ranked T20 batter and was nan fastest subordinate to scope 1,000 world runs successful nan format, taking conscionable 24 innings.

The left-hander was portion of nan England squad that won nan 2022 T20 World Cup, but has not played an world since nan 50-over World Cup successful November.

Speaking to The Times, external, Malan said he "exceeded each expectations" successful white-ball cricket but felt he could person played much Test matches.

"Test cricket was ever nan pinnacle for maine increasing up," he said.

"At times I played good but successful betwixt conscionable wasn’t bully capable aliases accordant enough, which was disappointing because I felt I was a amended subordinate than that."

He scored 1,074 runs, astatine an mean of 27.53, successful Tests and has 1,450 runs astatine 55.76 successful one-day internationals.

He is England's fourth-highest run-scorer successful men's T20s pinch 1,892, astatine an mean of 36.38.

Malan was calved successful London but grew up successful South Africa, returning to nan UK pinch Middlesex successful 2006 earlier joining Yorkshire successful 2020.

The batter, who has occasionally bowled off-spin, signed a white-ball only statement and took connected a part-time coaching domiciled pinch nan region astatine nan commencement of 2024.

He is besides a regular successful franchise cricket leagues crossed nan world, including nan Indian Premier League, Australian Big Bash and The Hundred.