Katherine Sciver-Brunt indicators off as hip harm prevents farewell look
Sciver-Brunt, who took 335 wickets for England throughout codecs, announced her international retirement earlier this yr and stated she would finish her profession for good after the Hundred, however has struggled with a hip harm throughout the event.
She led a lap of honour at Trent Bridge after battling via the harm to bowl 20 balls off a shortened run-up in Rockets’ slender win over Originals, and determined in opposition to enjoying of their dead-rubber in opposition to Oval Invincibles in South London on Monday afternoon.
Sciver-Brunt finishes the event with a solitary wicket in her 4 appearances, and 26 runs in her two innings with the bat. Cassidy McCarthy changed her within the facet on Monday.
“I’m happy with the decision I’ve made and how it’s all gone,” Sciver-Brunt stated, engaged on Sky Sports’ protection from The Oval.
“It’s just quite a big chunk of my life that’s going to change now – and obviously one that made me quite happy and fulfilled. I’m glad that I’ve shaped my life in the way that I have, and that I have Natalie [Sciver-Brunt] and my family and their massive support.
Sciver-Brunt won the ODI World Cup with England in 2009 and 2017, a T20 World Cup in 2009, and the Ashes series in 2005, 2013 and 2013-14. “It does make me really feel glad,” she said. “I feel being the No. 1 bowler on the earth was the one I wished essentially the most – and that did occur as soon as upon a time!
“Those achievements and those milestones, I didn’t have those in mind. They are absolutely brilliant to have, but it’s the journey that you make and the person that you shape yourself to be.
“Being a part of the exhilarating highs, and typically the lows, they’re what you reside for. [Those are] the moments that I used to crave having: feeling on high of the world. That’s the bit that I’ll miss essentially the most.”