Worcestershire's Jack Shantry Announces Retirement From All Forms of the Game

Left-arm medium pacer Jack Shantry, who played for English club Worcestershire for over eight months, has deiced to call it quits from the county arena.

Pertinently, Shantry announced his retirement from all formats of the game. It was due to the back injury which has been with him for a long time. It has hampered his career quite badly. He was unable to play a single county game for the club, this season. It prompted him to take the decision.

The 30-year-old cricketer Shantry first hogged the limelight in a Minor Counties game where bagged 10 wickets in 2008. He went on to make his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Nottinghamshire in August 2009.

The best of Shantry came in 2014 when he had a terrific domestic season for Surrey in the Second Division. He scored a terrific century against Worcestershire. It helped him get promoted to the First Division. He also picked up four wickets during the match.

Following the conclusion of the match, Steve Rhodes, who was the head coach of Worcestershire back then said that he never gives up.

“He doesn’t give up. It was like Botham’s Ashes at Headingley,” he said to BBC.

A man with an awkward action, Shantry bagged 56 wickets in that season. He also chipped in with 481 runs.

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Coming again to the forefront, Shantry smashed a century against Gloucestershire in a Second Division game. However, he couldn’t quite help his side win the match.

Jack Shantry ended his career with 1,640 runs and 266 wickets in the first-class circuit. He also managed to bag 92 scalps in his Twenty20 career.

Shanty’s statement:

“It is with great sadness that I announce my immediate retirement from all forms of cricket,” Shantry said in a statement.

 

“I haven’t played this season due to a back injury. Hence I have retired on the advice of medical professionals. Whilst I am incredibly disappointed to be retiring at the age of 30, I am immeasurably grateful for the opportunities afforded to me by Worcestershire CCC over the last ten seasons,” he added.

“Shants has been a great servant to the club,” Kevin Sharp, the Worcestershire head coach, said to the County’s official website.

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“He has been an unusual bowler and he has taken a lot of wickets and what a great stalwart for Worcestershire. It is always a bit sad when someone has to finish through injury. He has got a back injury which is not allowing him to bowl so he is fully retired from cricket now,” he added.