5 cricketers who might just retire this season
Is age just a number? Imran Khan proved it by coming out of retirement and captaining his side to the victory podium at the 1992 cricket World Cup. But does it work always? It is said the best time to quit sport is when you are at your peak so that you do not have to face the downfall.
But here in the list, we find cricketers who are yet to decide on their retirement and are still playing in at least one format of the game even though they have aged or have nothing else left to prove to anyone. Some of them are superstars of the game and might just want to call it quits after this season thinking they have had enough.
#5 Shahid Afridi
The Pakistan icon first stole the limelight in 1996 as a 16-year-old by blasting his way to a 37-ball hundred against a Sri Lankan side who were World Cup winners then. The leg-spinning all-rounder had featured in five 50-over World Cups and retired from ODIs just last year.
He has already quit Tests but continues to feature for his national side in T20s. After the debacle in the 2016 World T20 where Pakistan could not qualify for the knock-outs, Afridi quit captaincy but did not choose to quit. He was recently dropped from the Pakistan squad which toured England. Afridi has been a runner-up in 1999 and in 2011 he led Pakistan to the World Cup semi-final where they lost to eventual champions India. Afridi is a 36-year-old now and he just might think of hanging up his boots.