{"id":1326,"date":"2020-09-06T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T07:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=42843"},"modified":"2020-09-06T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T07:10:57","slug":"ian-bell-to-retire-from-cricket-at-2020-season-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ian-bell-to-retire-from-cricket-at-2020-season-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Bell to retire from cricket at 2020 season end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former England batsman Ian Bell on Saturday announced his retirement from professional cricket at the end of 2020 season, on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Bell is a five-times Ashes winner and has spent his entire career with Warwickshire. The 38 year-old batman missed his whole of 2019 season due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true when they say you know when the time\u2019s right, and unfortunately, my time is now. While my hunger and enthusiasm for the sport that I love remain as strong as ever, my body simply can\u2019t keep up with the demands of the game to the standard of which I expect of myself\u201d, said Ian Bell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s true when they say you know when the time\u2019s right, and unfortunately, my time is now.<br \/>It\u2019s been a pleasure.<br \/>Thank you.<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\ud83d\udc3b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u7Altf9qpT\">pic.twitter.com\/u7Altf9qpT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Bell MBE (@Ian_Bell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ian_Bell\/status\/1302260327359352841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ian Bell has won six trophies across all formats for Warwickshire, including two Country Championship titles.<\/p>\n<p>Warwickshire Sport Director, Paul Farbrace, said: \u201cIan will retire from the game as a true Bears legend. He\u2019s come through our development system and Academy, won every trophy possible, and he has broken club batting records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring his 12-year international career, he was also a fantastic ambassador for Warwickshire CCC who scored runs all over the world and was firmly established as one of the world\u2019s best batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing when to retire is an incredibly difficult decision for every professional sports man and woman and Ian deserves a huge amount of credit for making this call whilst he still had another year remaining on his contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian Bell\u2019s retirement has come as a surprise for his fans. Ian Bell as won the title of \u2018world\u2019s best batsmen\u2019 due to his international cricket performance.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Bell won 118 test caps in total, while he played in 161 one-day internationals and eight T20 internationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former England batsman Ian Bell on Saturday announced his retirement from professional cricket at the end of 2020 season,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":24440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}