Tammy Beaumont will retire from worldwide cricket on the finish of England’s Test match in opposition to India, which begins on Friday.
The primary ever girls’s Take a look at at Lord’s will double as Beaumont’s farewell because the England opener calls time on a glittering profession.
The 35-year-old has made 260 appearances for England since her debut in 2009, and departs as England’s main feminine ODI centurion with 12 lots of to her title.
Beaumont is one in all solely two English girls – and 5 English gamers – to have scored a global century in all three codecs of the sport, and was the primary English lady to report a double century when she made 208 in opposition to Australia at Trent Bridge in 2023.
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Best honour
“Enjoying for England for practically 17 years has been the best honour,” Beaumont stated.
“After I fell in love with taking part in cricket as a younger lady, I barely knew that taking part in cricket for England was an possibility and it brings me a lot pleasure to suppose what number of women and boys have been impressed, this summer time particularly, and the way far the sport has are available in our nation.
“We’ve all the time needed to take the cap ahead for the subsequent era and the time has come for me handy over that privilege to the subsequent era of England gamers.
“This Take a look at match at Lord’s – our first ever girls’s Take a look at at Lord’s – looks like the right event to log off on a profession that I may by no means have dreamt can be as particular because it has been.”
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Originals
Beaumont is among the many final of the ‘originals’ who acquired the primary batch {of professional} contracts within the girls’s sport, with Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Amy Jones the one others nonetheless energetic within the sport.
These contracts got here in 2015, and two years later Beaumont earned participant of the match honours as England lifted the Girls’s World Cup on dwelling soil after she topped the run-scoring charts with 410 runs.
Beaumont, who gamers for The Blaze and Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, stated she is going to proceed to play domestically.
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