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Marlon Samuels retires from professional cricket | West Indian cricketer Marlon Samuels retires from professional cricket
Marlon Samuels has retired from professional cricket. The man who was part of the winning team when West Indies won both the T20 World Cups, always spoke his mind. Samuels had scored a maiden Test hundred at Eden Garden, Kolkata when he was 21-year-old. According to ESPNcricinfo, the 39-year-old had informed Cricket West Indies about his decision in June having last played for his country in December 2018 against Bangladesh.
The star of West Indie’s two T20 World Cup 2012 and 2016 began his International career in 2000. In 2012, the World T20 finale that was held in Colombia hit a splendid 78-run knock off 56 runs, and in 2016 he hit an unbeaten 85 off 66 balls.
Samuels has often been surrounded by controversies during his career which included a two-year ban for corruption, as well a racist and family-targeted outburst at Ben Stokes. In 2008, he was also banned by the ICC for taking money and bring the “game of cricket into disrepute”. He was recently in the news for making ludicrous comments about Ben Stroke’s family. Samuels played 71 Tests, 207 ODIs, and 67 T20s at the International level, has scored 11,134 international runs including 17 centuries across all formats. He also has 152 international wickets to his name.
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