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Damien Martyn retires!

  • 08-12-2006 5:10am
    #1
    DMC
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    BBC Sport reporting the end of Damien Martyn.

    Aussie Martyn decides to retire
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6219992.stm
    Australia batsman Damien Martyn has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket with immediate effect.

    The 35-year-old, who made his international debut in 1992, notified Cricket Australia of his surprise decision on Friday morning.

    His place in the Australian team was thought to be under threat, having made only 45 runs in three innings in the current Ashes, with a top score of 29.

    Martyn scored 4,406 Test runs in 67 appearances, with 13 centuries.


Comments

  • #2
    rockbeer
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    Shame on you Martyn... The one batsman England could be reasonably confident of getting out cheaply, and you go and retire. Whoever the Aussies bring in (Symonds? Jacques?) is bound to do better than Martyn has managed in the last couple of Ashes series.

    Yet another nail in England's ashes coffin. As though that were needed.


  • #3
    mike65
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    I don't think it should be possible to retire halfway through a series you are selected for.

    Mike.


  • #4
    DMC
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    Who is to say that he wasn't going to be selected for the next match? In saying that, the Aussies never tinker with a winning team, so he was likely to have played in Perth next week, regardless of his form. But he knew the writing was on the wall once Shane Watson is fit, and Michael Clark scoring a century in the last test.

    He's been dropped many times before, so I wonder does the thought of being dropped again, (which was highly likely in this case) made him think, "I'll go before I'm pushed", and so get good press out of it, rather than bad. It is important for an Australian cricketer to go out on a high, on your own terms, rather than go stale and mouldy.

    When Nasser Hussein retired mid-way through a series, it was a blessing in disguise! :D


  • #5
    Pappa-eat-peach
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    I'd have to agree with the previous poster. Going out at the apex of one's game is the only way to bow out.


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