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Pakistan’s Asad Shafiq retires from international cricket
Pakistan batter Asad Shafiq has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Asad Shafiq made his retirement decision after leading Karachi Whites to the victory in the National T20 Championship. Asad Shafiq last played for Pakistan in 2020 as he played a crucial role in Pakistan’s Test team. He accumulated 4660 runs from 77 games at an average of 38.19 that included 12 centuries and 27 half-centuries. After playing his last game for Pakistan in 2020, Asad Shafiq had been playing domestic cricket since. Asad had also played 60 ODIs and 10 T20I where he had scored 1336 and 192 runs respectivly in both formats.
“I am not feeling the same excitement and passion playing cricket and neither do I have the same fitness levels required for International cricket. Which is why I have decided to say goodbye to all cricket,” he said.
Asad asserted that he had never felt pressured to take any decisions on his international career and he did what he felt was right.
“After being dropped in 2020 I kept on playing domestic cricket for three years yes in the hope of getting another crack at the Pakistan team. But before the start of this season I had decided this would be my last season because I felt that closing in on 38 years of age this was time to retire instead of people telling me to step down,” Asad Shafiq said.
“After the spot-fixing scandal in 2010 it was a very difficult time for Pakistan cricket and I am happy I was part of that process where we won back the confidence of the people in. Our team,” he said.
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