In the latest cricket news, Graeme Hick declared his retirement at the end of his 24th county season at Worcestershire on Tuesday. This breaking news has surprised cricket enthusiasts all over the world.
In the latest cricket news, Graeme Hick declared his retirement at the end of his 24th county season at Worcestershire on Tuesday. At 42 years of age, Hick will be ending his 25-year career because of a long-term elbow injury. His longwinded career finally comes to an end. He said - "I felt it was right to finish, I had a feeling at the start of the year that it was going to be my last year". This breaking news has surprised cricket enthusiasts all over the world. Cricket360 finds out more about this cricket news.
As for Hick’s cricketing career, he scored 112 first-class runs with 136 centuries. In fact, he is one of the only 25 players who scored 100 first-class hundreds. Hick’s career began when he was selected to play in the 1983 World Cup against Zimbabwe. But there is one disappointment for this amazing cricketer, his contribution to test cricket with England was not satisfactory. Much to this cricket news, you will know that he played 65 matches for England. He scored a total runs of 3383 including 6 hundreds and an average of 31 in a test career that spanned for nine years. His test career had ended in 2001. Cricket360 certainly brings to you the ultimate in breaking news.
Hick was far more successful in the shorter version of the game i.e. one-day international cricket. His average was a decent 37 in 120 matches. However, the bigger achievement was when England reached the finals of the 1992 World Cup. Not just that, he was the youngest player at 20 to score 2,000 first-class runs in a season. His test debut was in 1991. He had a poor start to his test career and he never bounced back ever since. He was selected and dropped from the team 10 times. At age 34, Hick retired from test cricket. Michael Vaughan took his place for the 2001 series at Sri Lanka. Find out more about this breaking news and cricket match news at Cricket360.
Hicks contribution to international cricket is worthy of praise and his legacy is certainly assured. In regard to this cricket news, England batsman Ian Bell said "He is a great of the game and has set fantastic standards over such a long time," "And for me to have been able to watch him close up out in the middle, made me admire his ability even more.
