T&T and West Indies’ bowler Anisa Mohammed celebrates the dismissal of Australia’s Elyse Villani throughout their ICC Girls’s Twenty20 Cricket World Cup semi-final match in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 3, 2014.
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Longstanding T&T and West Indies Girls’s cricketer Anisa Mohammed has retired from the game. She is one in every of 4 West Indies Girls’s cricketers to have referred to as time on their careers. The others are Shakera Selman, Kycia Knight and Kyshona Knight. Mohammed and Selman each served as vice-captains throughout their 20 and 18-year careers respectively.
Cricket West Indies has hailed them for his or her “dedication, ability, and sportsmanship” after they formally introduced their worldwide retirements from the game.
The quartet have been members of the West Indies Girls’s crew over the previous decade and helped them to win the 2016 ICC Girls’s Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in India.
“Anisa, Shakera, Kycia, and Kyshona have all made vital particular person impacts on ladies’s cricket, West Indies, and the world,” CWI Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe mentioned.
“Their dedication, ability, and sportsmanship haven’t solely elevated our crew but in addition captivated cricket followers worldwide.
“Their legacies, as members of the title-winning ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup squad of 2016 and particular person milestones will proceed to affect and information future generations to aspire to put on the maroon.”
Mohammed made her debut for the West Indies Girls 21 years in the past in 2003 on the age of 15 towards Japan Girls in an ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier within the Netherlands. Her final match was towards Australia Girls within the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup in March 2022.
Mohammed, an off-spinner from Trinidad & Tobago, leaves the worldwide stage as probably the most profitable bowler for West Indies Girls’s in One-day and Twenty20 Internationals.
She performed 141 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and 117 T20 Internationals (T20Is). She bagged 180 ODI wickets, with a profession better of 7-14 towards Pakistan in November 2011. She captured 125 wickets in 117 T20Is and in 2016 she grew to become the primary cricketer (male or feminine) to take 100 T20I wickets.
She additionally has the excellence of being the primary West Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in a Girls’s T20I. She was a member of the West Indies Girls’s crew, which received the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India in 2016.
Mohammed mentioned: “The final 20 years have been actually superb,” she mentioned in a CWI information launch with the announcement. “I’ve loved each single minute of it. The highs and the lows. I consider the time has come for me to step away from the sport and permit the younger gamers to reside their desires as I’ve lived mine.
“I used to be privileged sufficient to step onto the sphere carrying my maroon 258 occasions in my profession. I’ve represented West Indies in 5 ODI World Cups and 7 T20I World Cups.”
Selman, a pacer from Barbados, began her worldwide profession towards Eire Girls in Dublin in 2008, and he or she performed 100 ODIs taking 82 wickets, and 96 T20Is taking 51 wickets.
The Barbados Cricket Affiliation introduced that she had joined its workers as the primary Girls’s Cricket Officer efficient Jan. 1 this 12 months, and she’s going to deal with the event of the junior and senior ladies’s sport on the island.
Selman mentioned: “This marks my ultimate bow after 18 unimaginable years,”
“I’m pleased with taking part in with and towards legends, and fortunate to have dismissed a couple of. My intention was at all times to encourage and help others of their desires.”
Barbadian twins Kycia and Kyshona Knight, who will flip 32 subsequent month, made their worldwide debuts in 2011 and 2013 respectively.
Kycia, a wicketkeeper-batsman, made 1 327 runs in 87 ODIs and 801 runs in 70 T20Is. Left-handed batsman Kyshona gathered 851 runs in 51 ODIs and 546 runs in 55 T20Is.
“As this marks the tip of an pleasurable and superb journey, we want to take this time to thank our household, associates, teammates, and supporters for the continued love and assist all through the years,” they mentioned.
“None of this could have been potential with out the assist and love from you guys, and for that, we’re ceaselessly grateful. Lastly, thanks to CWI for the alternatives granted and reminiscences that might be ceaselessly cherished.”
