New Delhi: Veteran India pacer Jhulan Goswami Thursday announced her retirement from T20I with immediate effect, BCCI announced in a statement. The 35-year-old Goswami, represented India in 68 T20Is picking up 56 wickets that included a five-wicket haul against Australia in 2012.
“India pacer Jhulan Goswami has decided to call it quits from the shortest format of the game. 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,” the statement read.
“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 further added.
“This was something I had been thinking for a long time. I want to concentrate on ODIs now and I feel I was not able to give my best in both formats,” Goswami told this agency over phone.
Asked if her decision would impact the team’s performance with less than three months to go for the Women’s World Twenty20, Goswami said: “I think the team has some very good players. I can’t talk about whether they will find my replacement or not but I am sure with the kind of talent we have, we will keep doing well as a unit.”
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.