{"id":3019,"date":"2021-12-30T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T04:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=176541"},"modified":"2021-12-30T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T04:49:50","slug":"new-zealands-ross-taylor-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/new-zealands-ross-taylor-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Ross Taylor announces retirement from International Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand legend Ross Taylor has said goodbye to international cricket. 37-year-old Taylor has announced retirement by sharing a post on social media in the early hours of Thursday (December 30). Ross Taylor has said that he wants to play the next two series at home.<\/p>\n<p>Both these series are to be held against Bangladesh and Australia. First a two-Test series will be played against Bangladesh. After this, New Zealand also has to play a series of 5 ODIs against Australia and Netherlands in their own home. In such a situation, Ross Taylor\u2019s last match can be ODI against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at his announcement post<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I'm announcing my retirement from international cricket at the conclusion of the home summer, two more tests against Bangladesh, and six odi\u2019s against Australia & the Netherlands. Thank you for 17 years of incredible support. It\u2019s been an honour to represent my country #234 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OTy1rsxkYp\">pic.twitter.com\/OTy1rsxkYp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ross Taylor (@RossLTaylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossLTaylor\/status\/1476339755184902145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cricket career of Ross Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi player played a total of 445 matches in his international career, in which he scored a total of 40 centuries. Ross Taylor scored 7584 runs in 110 Tests and 8581 runs in 233 ODIs. He has 1909 runs in his name in 102 T20 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Taylor has scored 19 centuries in Tests and 21 in ODIs. He still has two Tests and 5 ODIs to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand legend Ross Taylor has said goodbye to international cricket. 37-year-old Taylor has announced retirement by sharing a post\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[164,1110],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-new-zealand","tag-ross-taylor"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}