{"id":5475,"date":"2023-02-16T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=280601"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:22:36","slug":"this-south-african-batsman-retires-at-the-age-of-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/this-south-african-batsman-retires-at-the-age-of-30\/","title":{"rendered":"This South African batsman retires at the age of 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 30, Theunis de Bruyn has announced his retirement from international cricket. Since making his debut in January 2017, the South Africa batter has played for his nation in 13 Tests and two Twenty20 matches.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate to represent my country at the highest level of cricket and that\u2019s been the proudest moment of my career,\u201d de Bruyn was quoted as saying in a statement issued by his domestic side Titans. \u201cI\u2019ve lived a childhood dream, shared dressing rooms with my heroes and played cricket at some of the world\u2019s most iconic venues; and I can\u2019t say thank you enough for the opportunities I\u2019ve got through this game.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cLooking back at everything that I\u2019ve achieved, it is time I say goodbye to international cricket and focus on the next chapter. I\u2019m excited for what the future has to offer and looking forward to chasing more dreams and ambitions in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 25 innings, De Bruyn amassed 468 runs, including one century against Sri Lanka in 2018. His final game for South Africa was in the visitors\u2019 innings and 182-run loss in the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG last year, where he scored 12 and 28 in the two innings, respectively. Prior to the New Year\u2019s Test, De Bryun ended the tour early and went back to his house to give birth to his first child.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 30, Theunis de Bruyn has announced his retirement from international cricket. Since making his debut in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1041,3335,254],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-csa","tag-proteas","tag-south-africa"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}