England all-rounder Chris Woakes has retired from playing international cricket after being left out of the Ashes squad for the winter.
The 36-year-old has played 62 Test matches, 122 ODIs, and 33 T20Is for his country.
He was a member of the England side that won the 2019 World Cup in a thrilling final against New Zealand at Lord’s and T20 in 2022.
The Warwickshire man made his England debut in a T20 in 2011 and contested his first Test in the last game of the 2013 Ashes series.
Woakes had formed part of the English team which drew the engaging Test series 2-2 against India this summer.
On the first day of the fifth Test, he supposed a dislocated shoulder and then entered to bat with his left arm in a sling on the last day.
England needed 17 runs for victory when Woakes emerged at number 11. He did not face a single ball but instead ran four runs before Gus Atkinson was dismissed.
Woakes on Test: 192 wickets at an average of 29.61 and 2,034 runs at an average of 25.11.
In ODIs, 173 wickets to his name along with 1,524 runs and in T20s, 31 wickets and 147 runs.
Playing for England was something I had aspired to do ever since I was just a kid dreaming in the back garden, and I would say I am very blessed to have lived out those dreams,” he wrote on social media.
“There are many things that I will look back upon with the greatest pride over the last 15 years of representing England, wearing the Three Lions, and sharing the field with many team-mates, a lot of whom have become lifelong friends.
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“I feel like my debut in 2011 in Australia was just yesterday, but that is what happens when you have a great time.”
“I never thought I would be able to lift two World Cups and be a part of some brilliant Ashes series, and those memories along with the celebrations with the team will stay with me forever.
“I foresee myself going on to play at the county level and looking at more franchises in the near future.”
The Compton-Miller Medal, indicating man-of-the-series honors, came Woakes’ way at the 2023 Ashes where he took 19 wickets at 18.14 in three matches.
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Woakes has seen it all in an era of ups and downs for English cricket. He is the one of four men to play in both the 2019 50-over World Cup final and the T20 final in 2022 in that golden age of white-ball cricket when England were simultaneously world champions in both formats. Overall, he is one of only six England players to have won both World Cups and the Ashes.
His departure will be yet another goodbye to many who made up the core in the England team for much of the last decade and the beginning of this one. Moeen Ali has retired, Jonny Bairstow has lost favor, Jos Buttler is now relegated to white-ball duties alone; Anderson and Broad are gone, Stokes and Mark Wood are closer to the end than the zenith.
