{"id":180388,"date":"2021-09-27T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=180388"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:28:28","slug":"moeen-ali-retires-test-cricket-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/moeen-ali-retires-test-cricket-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Moeen Ali to retire from Test cricket to focus on white ball cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>England all-rounder Moeen Ali has announced his retirement from Test cricket. The 34-year-old has played 64 tests and scored 2,914 runs with 195 wickets also on his name, including five 5-wickets haul and a hat-trick against South Africa. His retirement comes right before their test series against Australia in the Ashes starting in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali made his test debut in 2014 against Sri Lanka and went on to represent England 34 times. Moeen said that, he is 34 now and wants to play cricket for as long as he can and just wants to enjoy his game. He said that he has enjoyed playing Test cricket but sometimes the intensity can be to much in the game that he felt like, he has done enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">England&#39;s Moeen Ali has called time on his Test career.<br><br>Details \ud83d\udc47<\/p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1442386633085505538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali thanked his team-mates, captain, coaches for trusting him and providing the opportunity and said that, he will miss playing against the best teams in the world, knowing that with his best ball he could get anyone out. Since Moeen Ali\u2019 s debut, only James Anderson and Stuart Broad have picked more wickets him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/ipl-2021-all-you-need-to-know-about-harshal-patel-the-new-hat-trick-boy-of-this-season\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/ipl-2021-all-you-need-to-know-about-harshal-patel-the-new-hat-trick-boy-of-this-season\/\">IPL 2021: All you need to know about Harshal Patel, the new hat-trick boy of this season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his batting career, Ali has smashed five centuries, four of them came in 2016 when he made 1078 in a calendar year and was third in the ICC rankings of Test batsmen. As a bowler, he peaked between 2017 and 2019, in 2017 he took 26 wickets at 15.64 against South Africa, claiming the famous hat-trick at the Oval. Next year he collected a total of 32 wickets in six tests against West Indies and Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ali will continue to play in ODIs and T20 for England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCB VS MI: Watch How Virat Kohli Consoles Ishan Kishan After Defeating MI - rcb vs mi highlights\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Av-BQQOh7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England all-rounder Moeen Ali has announced his retirement from Test cricket. The 34-year-old has played 64 tests and scored 2,914 runs with 195 wickets also on his name, including five 5-wickets haul and a hat-trick against South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":180391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Moeen Ali to retire from Test cricket to focus on white ball cricket\n\n#MoeenAli #test","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,1497],"tags":[107894,105249,107893,107895],"yst_prominent_words":[25280,5024,4172,6269,29296,52236,15425,83000,23232,14183,25878,15411,20872,25104,4536],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/09\/27143016\/Moeen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180388"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=180388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=180388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->