Shauna Kavanagh retires from international cricket

Ireland middle-order batter Shauna Kavanagh has retired from international cricket. Kavanagh, 31, played 27 ODIs and 58 T20Is, the last of which came in September 2022 against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup Qualifier. She was picked for the new T20Is against Netherlands however didn't get a game.

Kavanagh played in the 2016 and 2018 T20 World Cups and was important for the crew this year as well. She will keep on playing for her club, the Pembroke Cricket Club, and with the Scorchers in the Summon Super Series.

"The choice to resign from worldwide cricket is something I have been pondering for a brief period and presently feels like the perfect opportunity to complete my playing process with Ireland, she said. "Playing cricket for Ireland has been a critical piece of my life for quite a while and there is no question this will be a personal change.

"My worldwide profession has been a tremendously remunerating excursion and I'm unimaginably thankful for every one of the potential open doors and encounters I have had. I might want to thank the staff at Cricket Ireland for their constant help, especially all the care staff I have worked with throughout the long term."

Kavanagh made her global presentation in April 2011 in the two arrangements. She scored 345 runs from 41 T20 innings and 206 runs in 20 ODI trips, averaging just shy of 11 in the two arrangements. She had fostered another expertise in wicketkeeping late in her profession.

"Shauna is the quintessential cooperative person, a diligent expert who was continuously trying to improve and develop her game. Indeed, even to pursue the choice to create wicketkeeping abilities late in her vocation epitomizes how she generally had one eye in the group's necessities, and with difficult work has turned into a truly capable guardian," Ed Joyce, Ireland Ladies' lead trainer, said. "She will be remembered fondly enormously, yet will keep on highlighting in the Super Series where she can impart her experience and information to the following yield of players getting through the framework."

Laura Delany, the Ireland chief, said Kavanagh was a "splendid good example" for youths and was "exceptionally regarded" for her "hard working attitude, obligation to the group and the enthusiasm and backing she's shown her partners throughout the long term."