{"id":82956,"date":"2025-08-21T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:17:07","slug":"matt-dunn-surrey-fast-bowler-forced-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82956\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Dunn: Surrey fast bowler forced to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrey fast bowler Matt Dunn is to retire from professional cricket “with immediate effect” because of injury, his club has announced.<\/p>\n

Dunn, 33, has failed to recover fully after tearing cartilage in his shoulder during a second XI match against Middlesex in May 2024.<\/p>\n

He had surgery, but Surrey’s medical team and his surgeon have advised him to retire on medical grounds because of on-going pain.<\/p>\n

Dunn made his debut for Surrey in 2010 and was part of their squad which has won the County Championship four times since 2018.<\/p>\n

Dunn explained his decision, claiming he had run “out of options” because of pain.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, I’ve been struggling with a shoulder injury for the last 14 months now,” he told Surrey’s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I had a surgery in January, tried my best this year to come back, took multiple injections, but unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where we’re kind of out of options medically.<\/p>\n

“For me, the club is, and has been, an absolutely massive part of my life for a long time and it will be for a long time. I don’t think you ever really do properly leave this place.”<\/p>\n

In a career hampered by a number of injuries, he claimed 115 first-class wickets for Surrey, including four five-wicket hauls, to go with a further 52 in white-ball cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey fast bowler Matt Dunn is to retire from professional cricket “with immediate effect” because of injury, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82956","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\/82956","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=82956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}