Veteran India Pacer Jhulan Goswami Retires from T20 Cricket

Jhulan Goswami, veteran India Women’s team pacer, has decided to hang her boots from the shortest format of the game. Meanwhile, she made her debut in the T20 format way back in 2006 against England Women.

She represented India in 68 T20Is picking up 56 wickets which included a five-wicket haul against Australia in 2012. Jhulan Goswami has a stunning economy rate of 5.45 in this format of the game.

As a result, she won’t be a part of the upcoming T20I series against Windies in November later this year. The tall and lanky pacer from Bengal thanked BCCI and her teammates for all the love support.

“Goswami thanked the BCCI and her teammates for all the love and support she garnered during her stint with the T20I team and wished them luck going forward,” BCCI said in a statement.

Furthermore, BCCI also wished her luck when she takes charge in the other two formats.

“BCCI and the entire Women’s national team wishes her the best and looks forward to her valuable contributions when she represents India in other two formats,” the statement added.

Jhulan Goswami has also led India in 18 T20I winning eight out of them. Later she stepped down as the skipper to concentrate more on her bowling.

Goswami — a veteran of 10 Tests and 169 ODIs — is currently the leading wicket-taker in the women’s ODI format and also the first woman cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets.

She won the International Cricket Council’s (ICC)Women’s Cricketer of the Year award in 2007, the first Indian player to win it. In 2010, she received the Arjuna Award and two years later, became only the second woman cricketer to be conferred the Padma Shri, after Diana Edulji.