Before the Champions Trophy, the player who scored 11000 runs and 31 centuries retired and played the last match his career

Manish Gaidhankar
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  • The Champions Trophy 2025 is going to start on February 19. Team India’s first match will be on February 20. But before this match, this Indian player announced his retirement from all formats of cricket…

Champions Trophy 2025: The Champions Trophy is going to start from 19 February. Team India’s first match will be on 20 February. But before this match, the Indian player announced his retirement from all formats of cricket. This player has scored more than 11000 runs in all formats of cricket. Also, 31 centuries have come from his bat. But now he has surprised everyone by suddenly saying goodbye to his career. Let’s know who this player is.

The player who scored 31 centuries retired before Champions Trophy 2025

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The player who scored 31 centuries retired before Champions Trophy 2025
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Let us tell you that before the Champions Trophy (Champions Trophy 2025), Indian player Sheldon Jackson has announced his retirement. Saurashtra’s best batsman Jackson retired from professional cricket on Tuesday after a 15-year career. His last match ended with a defeat to Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals. In this match, he scored 14 and 27 runs in both innings against Gujarat and Gujarat won the match by an innings and 98 runs.

Sheldon Jackson played his last match against Gujarat

Before the Champions Trophy 2025, Sheldon Jackson retired from white ball cricket during the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Now he has become a professional in first class. Let us tell you that Jackson played cricket for Saurashtra for a long time. He made his domestic cricket debut in 2006 by playing a List A match with the same team. After this, he played T20 in 2009 and started his first-class career against Railways in 2011. Not only this, he has also played for RCB and KKR in the IPL. But his performance was not good.

Scored more than 11 thousand runs and 31 centuries in domestic cricket

If we talk about his international career, he could never make his international debut. 38-year-old Jackson has scored more than 7200 runs in 105 first-class matches, including his highest score of 186, 21 centuries, and 39 half-centuries. He ended his career with an average of more than 45. He has scored 2792 runs in 84 List-A matches, in which his best score in a match was 133 runs. In 86 T20 matches, he has scored 1812 runs at an average of 27. Also, his best score was 106 runs. He has scored 1 century in this format. That is, a total of 11887 runs have come from his bat and he has scored 31 centuries.

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