The decision to retire by cricketers in the year 2025 has not stopped. In the current year, players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Nicholas Puran have announced retirement from different formats of cricket. After this, now England star woman player Sophie Divine has surprised everyone by announcing her retirement from ODI cricket.

According to media reports, divine veteran all -rounder Kiwi players will say goodbye to ODI cricket after the Women’s ODI 2025 starting on September 30. Let us know that this decision of Divine has been taken before the announcement of New Zealand Central Contract List. He has chosen the Casual playing agreement. Under this, she will not join New Zealand’s annual contract. But she will be seen playing for the team.

Big thing of divine on retirement decision

In a statement released by New Zealand Cricket on Tuesday, Divine said, “I think this is the right time for me to decide.” I consider myself lucky that New Zealand Cricket helped me reach this decision. This means that I can still play for New Zealand. “

New Zealand was made world winner

The 35 -year -old star all -rounder female player is considered one of the best players in women’s cricket. Under her captaincy, the New Zealand women’s team defeated South Africa in the 2024 T20 World Cup and won its title. He has scored 3990 runs in 152 ODIs with an average of 31.66 and eight centuries. He has also scored 3431 runs in 146 T20 international matches with a century. Divine has taken 107 and 119 wickets in ODIs and T20s respectively. He has not played any Test match.

Significantly, before the divine, India’s star cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Test cricket. Apart from this, South African wicketkeeper batsman also said goodbye to the international format at a young age. Apart from this, Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell of Australia have also appeared in this list. At the same time, Dhakad Caribbean batsman Nicholas Puran has also said goodbye to international cricket. Overall, in the year 2025, the decision to take the players’ sanctus is not taking the name of stopping.