Unheralded; lesser known and largely nondescript South African (Springboks) opener or then opening batsman Alviro Petersen has decided to hang up his boots or then is it bats for good following his team's consummate 8 wicket triumph over a struggling West Indian team in the just concluded test match at Newlands.........
Petersen who had been experiencing a monumental dip in both form as well as cricketing fortunes during recent times represented his nation's cricket (test) team in 36 fixtures (test matches) from 2010 onwards and aggregated 2,093 test runs at a less than stellar average of 34.88........
Five centuries embellished or adorned his test match batting exploits but an extended dip in form and constant frustration at his repeated inability to resurrect both his batting from and cricketing fortunes forced him to take a good; hard and insightful look at his cricketing future and arrive at this decision........
34 year old Petersen who also featured in the South African One Day International Side in barely a handful of fixtures will now be moving on with his cricketing career and solely focus his energies on representing an unnamed English county side as well as the Johannesburg based local side Lions in South African domestic cricket fixtures for the next four years or so before transforming himself into a certified cricket coach.........
Petersen who had been experiencing a monumental dip in both form as well as cricketing fortunes during recent times represented his nation's cricket (test) team in 36 fixtures (test matches) from 2010 onwards and aggregated 2,093 test runs at a less than stellar average of 34.88........
Five centuries embellished or adorned his test match batting exploits but an extended dip in form and constant frustration at his repeated inability to resurrect both his batting from and cricketing fortunes forced him to take a good; hard and insightful look at his cricketing future and arrive at this decision........
34 year old Petersen who also featured in the South African One Day International Side in barely a handful of fixtures will now be moving on with his cricketing career and solely focus his energies on representing an unnamed English county side as well as the Johannesburg based local side Lions in South African domestic cricket fixtures for the next four years or so before transforming himself into a certified cricket coach.........
No comments:
Post a Comment