Ireland seamer Boyd Rankin announces retirement
ESPNCricInfo
21 May 2021, 22:43 GMT+10
Boyd Rankin, the former Ireland and England seamer, has announced his retirement from international and inter-provincial cricket. Rankin made his Ireland debut in 2003, and won the last of his 153 caps in a T20I against Afghanistan in Greater Noida last year.
In between the 6ft 8in seamer also played for England, winning a Test call on the 2013-14 Ashes tour, to go with seven ODI and two T20I appearances. Rankin returned to Ireland in time to play in their maiden outing as a Test nation, against Pakistan at Malahide in 2018, claiming their first Test wicket in the same match - and becoming only the 15th man to represent two countries in Tests.
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Mind you, there are those who will insist that both scoreboards are not strictly accurate it was actually 42-9 and 36-9. For, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar did not bat in the second innings at Lord’s, being injured, and Mohammad Shami retired hurt at Adelaide in 2020.
Did anyone see it coming?
That is not the only coincidence in the two (in)famous collapses. In both cases, India had arrived on tour being seen as a very competitive side – in 1974, the Wadekar-lead Indian team had won three series in a row in 1971 in the West Indies and England, and 1972-73 against England at home, and was known for having two of the best young batsmen around Gavaskar and Vishwanath and of course was famed for its spin prowess Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrasekhar. And although the Indians lost the first Test at Manchester, they competed stubbornly right till the very end, with Gavaskar scoring what he considered to be his best Test century in the first innings. Even at Lord’s, they replied to England�