Kevin O'Brien announces retirement from ODI cricket
Ireland star-batsman Kevin O’Brien has announced his retirement from international one-day cricket after a 15-year long career at the highest level, on Friday, 18 June. O’Brien lit up the world with the fastest century in an ODI World Cup against England in the 2011 edition that turned out to be the shining light of his career.
He played 152 ODIs and scored 3619 runs at an average of 29.42 and a strike rate of 88.79. He scored two centuries in the format with the highest score of 142 runs.
He was also an economical bowler and picked up 114 wickets with an economy rate of 5.2 runs per over and an average of 32.68 runs per wicket.
He also played 95 T20I games and amassed 1672 runs at an average of 21.16 at a strike 136.05. He also went on to score one century in the shortest format.
He picked up 58 wickets at 19.53 apiece and with an economy rate of 7.5 runs per over.
He was one of the members of the Ireland squad when the national team made its debut in the Test format against Pakistan and went on to score the first century by an Ireland batsman in the longest format of the game.
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