PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies off-spinner Anisa Mohammed has pointed to her file landmark in Twenty20 Internationals and West Indies’ seize of the 2016 T20 World Cup as two of the very best factors in her excellent profession.
The 35-year-old formally known as time on her enjoying days final month, bringing the curtain down on a profession that yielded 180 wickets in 141 One-Day Internationals and 125 wickets in 117 T20 Internationals.
She holds the respect of changing into the primary bowler within the males’s or girls’s recreation to take 100 wickets in T20 Internationals.
“After I earned the 100 T20I wickets, I solely knew it was for each women and men after I bought again to the lodge,” the Newsday quoted Mohammed as saying.
West Indies off-spinner Anisa Mohammed.
“I used to be shocked as a result of, at the moment, gamers like Samuel Badree, Sunil Narine, Shahid Afridi, and Lasith Malanga have been nonetheless enjoying.
“Successful the World Cup two years earlier than was additionally one thing additional particular to me and the group. It meant an entire lot.”
Trinidadian Mohammed made her worldwide debut at age 15 through the Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Qualifiers in Holland in 2003, changing into one of many best off-spinners within the recreation.
She was a part of the West Indies facet that defeated Australia within the remaining of the 2016 T20 World Cup, producing a prime spell to restrict the Aussies.
Mohammed stated she was happy together with her profession, noting that it had reworked her life.
“I feel I had a fairly profitable profession. There have been additionally lots of lows as properly. I’m completely happy I might play for thus a few years and achieve a lot,” she stated.
“However it couldn’t have performed that with out the assist of my household, buddies, teammates, coaches, and technical employees.
“It has helped me to turn into a calmer particular person. Earlier than cricket, I wasn’t very calm, however the sport has helped me turn into calmer and humbler and respect the place I come from. Sport helped maintain me out of hassle.”
Whereas serving as West Indies vice-captain, Mohammed introduced a six-month break from the sport in 2022 however by no means returned. On the time, then director of cricket, Jimmy Adams, labeled her “a real stalwart of West Indies Ladies’s cricket.”
And recalling her prolonged profession, she stated being away from household proved her “greatest problem.”
“I’m a household particular person, and I spent lots of time away from house,” stated Mohammed.
“After having a foul day or only a lengthy day of cricket with the identical gamers, and generally you wished the consolation of your loved ones, to have that reassurance and love from them. Not having my household shut was my greatest problem.”
Mohammed was just lately honored by the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board and the T&T Ladies’s Cricket Affiliation.
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