Player Retirements

[dancingmongoose]

Ponting will play for Hobart in the new Big Bash League, so will have to come out of t20 retirement

[Sureshot]

Yep, Azhar will be available for England in 2011.

[Ausathon]

I know this isnt a retirement but is Azhar Mahmood going to be available for England selection in the game? In this cricinfo article (http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/521388.html) it says that he qualified for England in March.

[Phylos Fett]

Brett Geeves retires from everything but T20s due to back injury.

[MattDMX]

Not sure how this will affect things if at all:

Steffan Jones of Derbyshire retiring at the end of the season

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/13937224.stm

[DeadlyVenom]

It's up to you, my initial thought is to retire Vettori from those formats and to remove Richardson. If you think otherwise, we can go with that.

I think retiring him from those two is fine Sureshot. His "comeback" will be a couple of years away at the very least and its quite unlikely he will come back IMO.

You can worry about it in ICC2014!

[Chewie]

I think you may as well retire Vettori seeing as he'll be 36 I think when the next world cup comes around and wouldn't have much short-form cricket left in him anyway

[Sureshot]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzeala...ry/520687.html

Vettori semi-retires from ODIS and T20s

What do people want us to do with this? Sounds like he will come back for shorter stuff, but obviously if we program him to be retired from short stuff, it's not dynamic so he won't be able to play it again in the future.

Likewise, Matt Mason has played some cricket for Worcs this season, so I'm in a bit of two minds on whether to remove, particularly as the Worcs team is a little weak to say the least (though Richardson and Wright have done okay this season).

It's up to you, my initial thought is to retire Vettori from those formats and to remove Richardson. If you think otherwise, we can go with that.

[Yorks]

Another retirement, this time Matt Mason of Worcestershire:

http://www.worcesterstandard.co.uk/sportstory-45718.html

[Chewie]

I think he's semi-retiring from domestic ODs too, and the only T20 he'll be playing is the IPL, not the HRV cup

[DeadlyVenom]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/current/story/520687.html

Vettori semi-retires from ODIS and T20s

[Phylos Fett]

I suppose it would depend on whether it clashes with the NZ domestic season

Good point! If they stick to last years format in NZ looks like there will definitely be some overlap. Pity. Yet another strike against the BBL...

[Chewie]

I suppose it would depend on whether it clashes with the NZ domestic season

[Phylos Fett]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzeala...ry/520541.html

Scott Styris retires from international cricket

Shame to see him go - at least he'll still be playing domestic T20's - maybe one of the BBL teams can coax him over for the season?

[Chewie]

Also,

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/5185886/Iain-O-Brien-returning-to-New-Zealand-cricket

Iain O'Brien is coming back to Wellington and is going to try to push for Black Caps selection