{"id":4472,"date":"2022-09-14T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=245661"},"modified":"2022-09-14T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:33:33","slug":"robin-uthappa-announces-retirement-from-all-forms-of-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/robin-uthappa-announces-retirement-from-all-forms-of-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Uthappa announces retirement from all forms of cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-hitting batsman Robin Uthappa has decided to end his 20-year professional career in Indian cricket as well as other domestic tournaments\u00a0by declaring his <strong>retirement from all formats<\/strong>. The 36-year-old shared his decision on Twitter and expressed excitement for the opportunity to \u2018chart a new era in his life\u2019 and spend time with his young family.<\/p>\n<p>Uthappa participated in the 2007 winning T20 World Cup campaign and played for India in 59 games (46 ODIs and 13 T20Is). Uthappa, a top-order batsman on the rise, established his name in the 2006 Challenger Trophy in Mohali with a century. In his first ODI, he scored 86 runs against an England attack that included James Anderson, Liam Plunkett, and Sajid Mahmood in Indore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka. However, all good things must come to an end, and with a grateful heart, I have decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket,\u201d Robin tweeted with a long emotional message.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It has been my greatest honour to represent my country and my state, Karnataka. However, all good things must come to an end, and with a grateful heart, I have decided to retire from all forms of Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GvWrIx2NRs\">pic.twitter.com\/GvWrIx2NRs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robbie Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbieuthappa\/status\/1570042711771860995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/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>Hard-hitting batsman Robin Uthappa has decided to end his 20-year professional career in Indian cricket as well as other domestic\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[409,648],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-retirement","tag-robin-uthappa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}