{"id":113400,"date":"2025-09-02T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:53:15","slug":"starc-retires-from-t20i-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113400\/","title":{"rendered":"Starc retires from T20I cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc announced his retirement from T20 international cricket on Tuesday, saying he wanted to focus on his Test and ODI career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Test cricket is and has always been my highest priority,&#8221; the 35-year-old said in a statement, with the T20 World Cup set for February-March next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have loved every minute of every T20 game I have played for Australia, particularly the 2021 World Cup,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMM6dlQswx_6qAw?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gnews.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%\"\/><\/a><br \/>Starc was part of the side that lifted the title that year.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Looking ahead to an away Indian Test tour, the Ashes and an ODI World Cup in 2027, I feel this is my best way forward to remain fresh, fit and at my best for those campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starc&#8217;s 79 wickets in T20 international cricket make him the second-highest for Australia after Adam Zampa.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement came as Australia named their squad for an upcoming series against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg said &#8220;to allow the next crop of fast bowlers a clear path to the T20 World Cup early next year is another example of putting team first&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to Mitch at this time of his career to make decisions which allow him to extend his Test and ODI careers as long as possible, which we fully support,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>NSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc announced his retirement from T20 international cricket on Tuesday, saying he wanted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-113400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}