{"id":118071,"date":"2026-07-13T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=118071"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:35:20","slug":"heather-knight-to-retire-from-international-cricket-after-lords-test-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/heather-knight-to-retire-from-international-cricket-after-lords-test-against-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Knight to retire from international cricket after Lord&#8217;s test against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"368\">LORD: England&#8217;s World Cup-winning former captain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/england-women-opt-to-bowl-against-south-africa-women-in-world-cup-semi-final\/\">Heather Knight<\/a> has announced that she will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the ongoing one-off Test against India at Lord&#8217;s, bringing an end to a remarkable 16-year career.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"739\">Knight, England Women&#8217;s most-capped international cricketer with 320 appearances, made her debut in 2010 and went on to captain the side in 199 matches. Under her leadership, England lifted the ICC Women&#8217;s World Cup in 2017. She also became the first England women&#8217;s cricketer to score international centuries in all three formats.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"1039\">In her farewell Test against India, Knight was dismissed for 13 runs in England&#8217;s second innings while chasing a daunting target of 457 at Lord&#8217;s. Her final innings ended with a standing ovation from the crowd as India closed in on a historic Test victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1261\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Across her international career, Knight scored 7,988 runs and registered six international centuries, leaving behind a legacy as one of England&#8217;s greatest women&#8217;s cricketers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LORD: England&#8217;s World Cup-winning former captain Heather Knight has announced that she will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the ongoing one-off Test against India at Lord&#8217;s, bringing an end to a remarkable 16-year career. Knight, England Women&#8217;s most-capped international cricketer with 320 appearances, made her debut in 2010 and went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":118072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43763],"class_list":["post-118071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-heather-knight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118073,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118071\/revisions\/118073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}