{"id":5170,"date":"2023-01-09T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=270240"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:48:25","slug":"dwaine-pretorius-retires-from-international-cricket-shifts-focus-to-t20-domestic-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/dwaine-pretorius-retires-from-international-cricket-shifts-focus-to-t20-domestic-leagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwaine Pretorius retires from international cricket; shifts focus to T20 domestic leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release from Cricket South Africa on Monday, Dwaine Pretorius has stepped down from playing international cricket with immediate effect (January 9). The all-rounder stated that he wants to concentrate on T20 and other shorter forms of the game.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cA few days ago, I made one of the toughest decisions of my cricketing career. I have decided to retire from all forms of international cricket,\u201d Pretorius said in the retirement note. \u201cGrowing up, my only goal in life was to play for the Proteas. I didn\u2019t know how it was going to happen, but God gave me talent and a serious will to succeed. The rest was in his hands.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cI am shifting my focus to T20 and other shorter formats for the rest of my career. Being a free agent will help me achieve the goal of being the best short format player I can be. By doing this, I will be able to have a better balance in my career and family life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pretorius, 33, made his international debut in 2016 and played in two World Cups while representing South Africa in 30 T20Is, 27 ODIs, and three Tests in all three formats.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release from Cricket South Africa on Monday, Dwaine Pretorius has stepped down from playing international cricket\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3272,409,254],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-dwaine-pretorius","tag-retirement","tag-south-africa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","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=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}