In test matches, he collected 192 wickets at an average of 29.61, hit one century and was player of the series in the 2023 Ashes series after helping England come from 2-0 down to draw 2-2.<\/p>\n
He took 173 wickets in ODIs and 31 in 33 T20s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look forward to continuing to play county cricket and exploring more franchise opportunities in the near future,\u201d Woakes said.<\/p>\n
Richard Thompson, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said the images of Woakes walking out to bat with his arm in a sling in his final test \u201creflected how much he cared about playing for his country and being the best teammate he could be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been a gentleman off the field, with the skills and fierce determination to win on it, regularly rising to the occasion on the biggest stage with bat as well as ball,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n
Rob Key, managing director of England men\u2019s cricket, said Woakes is \u201cone of the finest people to have played the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn extraordinary career carved out alongside two of England\u2019s greatest ever bowlers,\u201d Key said, referencing recently retired pacers James Anderson and Stuart Broad. \u201cA man who helped every team he played in, even before he walked onto the field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In test matches, he collected 192 wickets at an average of 29.61, hit one century and was player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,12539,740,1793,85],"class_list":["post-178889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-woakes","tag-cricket","tag-retirement","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178889","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=178889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}