{"id":686256,"date":"2026-07-11T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686256\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:21:10","slug":"wayne-madsen-derbyshire-falcons-batter-to-retire-from-t20-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686256\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Madsen: Derbyshire Falcons batter to retire from T20 Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derbyshire Falcons’ all-time leading T20 run-scorer Wayne Madsen is to retire from domestic T20 cricket.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old will play his final T20 Blast match on Sunday when the Falcons host Leicestershire, but will continue to feature in the County Championship and One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n

Madsen is the fourth-highest run-scorer in the Blast’s history and has amassed 5,108 runs, including two centuries, in 185 innings.<\/p>\n

The South Africa-born right-handed batter represents Italy in the format and played in this year’s T20 World Cup in India.<\/p>\n

He helped the Falcons to their only Finals Day appearance in 2019, as well as to the quarter-finals in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Derbyshire<\/a> are second bottom of the Blast North Group after just two wins in 11 games this summer and cannot qualify for Finals Day this year.<\/p>\n

“I still have a huge desire to play and compete for Derbyshire and firmly believe I have plenty more to contribute in the longer format of the game,” Madsen told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is certainly not a retirement from cricket. I still intend to continue playing white-ball cricket internationally for Italy and in franchise competitions when opportunities arise.<\/p>\n

“But stepping away from the domestic T20 game gives me the opportunity to better manage that balance going forward.”<\/p>\n

Derbyshire head of cricket Mickey Arthur added: “No words could do Wayne’s impact on T20 cricket at Derbyshire justice, he’s the club’s best-ever player in the format and I’m privileged to have coached him over the last five seasons.<\/p>\n

“Even at the age of 42, the quality and innovation are still there and we look forward to what Wayne can continue to offer us moving forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derbyshire Falcons’ all-time leading T20 run-scorer Wayne Madsen is to retire from domestic T20 cricket. The 42-year-old will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}