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| Matthew Wade is planning to retire from cricket |
Melbourne, Nov 18 - Matthew Wade, the Australian cricket team's T20 World Cup hero, has said he plans to retire from cricket after next year's ICC T20 World Cup 2021 in the country. "Hopefully I get a chance to play in this World Cup and we will defend the title and after that I can retire," he said in a statement on Thursday. I will definitely not play international cricket after that. That is my goal now. The Australian wicketkeeper-batsman has also revealed that he played in the final against New Zealand despite his hamstring injury. "Obviously I was a little nervous the night before the match," he said. If I didn't get up in the morning and bat, I wouldn't play but I wanted to play well for the match and the team. I was worried that if we had to bat first and I had to play aggressively and then if the injury got worse I would not be able to do wicket-keeping which would be very detrimental to the team. Wade also said that He had difficulty training before, but tried to hide it and pretended to be fit, but Glenn Maxwell noticed his anxiety. I did some batting and hit shots during training. Then Maxwell made some more balls. The way he was bowling, I said what's going on here. Then he said, "I have a muscle strain." I don't know how he found out. Australia captain Aaron Finch said Wade was not even ready to look at his scan report, but he knew it was going to be difficult for the wicket-keeper-batsman.
It should be noted that Wade's 41 off 17 balls helped Australia reach the semi-finals with a convincing victory over Pakistan. Wade hit one of the tournament's most dangerous bowlers, Shaheen Afridi, hitting two sixes in a row on a ramp shot to take Australia to the final, where Australia defeated neighboring New Zealand to win the T20 World Cup for the first time. What was your name
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