Former Zimbabwe captain and right-handed batter Mary-Anne Musonda has introduced her retirement from all types of cricket. She performed 58 official T20Is and 16 official ODIs for the facet, however has featured in over 100 matches for Zimbabwe earlier than they gained worldwide standing.
„From the skin it would seem to be there’s nonetheless extra left within the tank – and, in some ways, there may be. However this resolution wasn’t solely about efficiency or potential. It was a mix of timing, perspective and bodily actuality,“ Musonda was quoted as saying in a Zimbabwe Cricket launch.
„At 34, I turned extra conscious that it wasn’t nearly whether or not I might maintain taking part in, however whether or not it was sustainable to maintain asking my physique to function at that degree time and again,” she added.
She has scored 1054 runs in T20Is, together with 336 runs in ODIs. She scored 5 T20I half-centuries after Zimbabwe Girls got full worldwide standing in 2021. That 12 months additionally noticed her turn into the primary Zimbabwean to attain a world century in ladies’s cricket, when she made an unbeaten 103 in what was the nation’s first-ever official ODI, towards Eire.
She expressed her pleasure at having the ability to captain the workforce, laying a basis for the following technology of girls’s cricketers in Zimbabwe.
„Captaining Zimbabwe Girls meant carrying greater than outcomes. It meant carrying the hopes of a rising sport. We weren’t simply taking part in matches, we had been serving to lay a basis for the following technology, the place each efficiency mattered in shifting perceptions and opening doorways,“ she mentioned.
„The legacy I hope to depart behind goes past information or milestones. It is about influence… if, years from now, extra women are taking part in cricket in colleges and extra pathways exist, then that, to me, is the true legacy,“ she added.
Musonda, who made her debut in 2006, was appointed captain of the facet in 2018.
„Mary-Anne has been a real servant of Zimbabwe Cricket and a pioneer for the ladies’s sport. Her management, professionalism and dedication have left an indelible mark on our cricketing panorama,“ ZC Chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani mentioned about Musonda.
Musonda was additionally the primary Zimbabwean worldwide to function within the Fairbreak Invitational T20 Match in 2022.
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