{"id":2743,"date":"2021-09-13T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=148818"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:40:58","slug":"zimbabwean-cricketing-star-brendon-taylor-officially-retires-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/zimbabwean-cricketing-star-brendon-taylor-officially-retires-from-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean cricketing star Brendon Taylor officially retires from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the International Cricket Council and Zimbabwe Cricketing board officially announced that Brendon Taylor will announce his retirement from international cricket officially after he plays his last match against Ireland on Monday. Taylor also now has the opportunity to become Zimbabwe\u2019s top run-scorer in ODI history. The current captain has now scored over 9,000 runs for Zimbabwe in international cricket. This will predominantly put an end to his 17-year cricketing career with 34 Tests, 204 ODI\u2019s and 45 T20\u2019s played in all. Taylors waves goodbye in his 205th ODI match against Ireland on Monday with fans and cricketing fraternity wishing him the best of luck in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Brendon Taylor made his entry into the cricketing world came with an emotional social media message describing his career full of extremely high and low prices.<\/p>\n<p>He also later quoted in a press conference \u201cMy goal was always to keep the team in a better position, as it was when I first arrived in 2004. I hope I did\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor recorded over 6,677 runs in ODI, 2,320 runs in Test Cricket and 934 runs in T20 cricket. He is now only 111 runs behind Andy Flower to be the top run-scorer for Zimbabwe Cricket as he departs with pride and success.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the top five batters in a four-year tournament. However, shortly after the World Cup campaign, Taylor left International Cricket and played in Nottinghamshire Cricket, as the signature of Colpack.<\/p>\n<p>ICC has officially announced that Brendon Taylor will retire from international cricket on Monday \u201c One of Zimbabwe\u2019s finest ever players will call it a day after the final ODI. Congratulations on an incredible career\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZimCricketv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZimCricketv<\/a>\u2019s finest ever players will call it a day after the final <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IREvZIM?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IREvZIM<\/a> ODI.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on an incredible career, @BrendanTaylor86 \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gJZcz5FJXD\">https:\/\/t.co\/gJZcz5FJXD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1437220040420597761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendon Taylor will now play his last international match on Monday as he announces his retirement from international cricket <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2727],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-zimbabwe-cricket-team"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}