In the year 2025, many big cricketers retired from their international careers, this includes 5 big players of India. Nicholas Pooran surprised everyone by retiring at the age of just 29. See the list of 11 such star players, who retired from international cricket this year.

tamim iqbal

Bangladesh’s opening batsman Tamim Iqbal retired from international cricket in January 2025. Let us tell you that this was the second time that he retired, before this he had also retired in 2023. Then, on the request of the then Prime Minister, he withdrew his retirement. Tamim has played 70 Tests, 243 ODIs and 78 T20 International matches.

martin guptill

New Zealand player Martin Guptill said goodbye to international cricket in the beginning of 2025. Guptill retired at the age of 38. In his career spanning 14 years, Guptill played 47 Tests, 198 ODIs and 122 T20 matches.

Dimuth Karunaratne

Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne retired from international cricket in February this year. Karunaratne played 100 Test and 50 ODI matches in his career. In this he scored 7222 and 1316 runs respectively.

Piyush Chawla

Indian leg spinner Piyush Chawla retired from international cricket in June this year. He played 3 Tests, 25 ODIs and 7 T20 International matches for India.

Cheteshwar Pujara

Indian Test team’s great batsman Cheteshwar Pujara also said goodbye to international cricket this year. In his career spanning about 15 years, Pujara played 103 Tests and 5 ODI matches for India. Pujara scored 7.195 runs in the test.

Riddhiman Saha

Wicketkeeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha also retired from international cricket in the year 2025. Saha made his international debut in 2010. He played his last international match in 2021, which was a Test. Saha played 40 Test and 9 ODI matches for India. Saha has 1353 runs in his name in Test.

heinrich classen

South Africa’s explosive batsman Heinrich Klaasen announced his retirement from international cricket this year to give priority to the T20 league. He played 4 Tests, 60 ODIs and 58 T20 International matches in his career.

Chris Woakes

England all-rounder Chris Woakes retired in September this year. His international career lasted for 15 years. Woakes played 62 Tests, 122 ODIs and 33 T20 matches in his career.

nicholas puran

West Indies wicketkeeper batsman Nicholas Pooran surprised everyone by retiring from international cricket at the age of just 29. Puran took this decision to give priority to league cricket. Puran played 61 ODI and 106 T20 International matches in his career.

Amit Mishra

Leg spinner Amit Mishra also announced his retirement from international cricket in the year 2025. He retired in September 2025. In his career, Amit Mishra played 76 Tests, 64 ODIs and 16 T20 matches. He took a total of 156 wickets in all three formats.

Mohit Sharma

Mohit Sharma announced his retirement from international cricket a few days ago. Mohit played 26 ODI and 8 T20 International matches for India in his career, in which he took 31 and 6 wickets respectively.

In the year 2025, many Indian legendary cricketers have retired one by one. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have retired from the Test, Varun Aaron and Piyush Chawla have also retired. Recently, Cheteshwar Pujara has also said goodbye to his cricket career. Often, there will be a question in the minds of people whether players suddenly declare retirement, or there is a process to retire.

How do cricketers take retirement?

Whenever an Indian cricketer retires, he first has to inform the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Apart from this, the player also has to warn the team management and the head coach with his decision. On many occasions, cricketers directly contact the Chief Selector and say that they have made up their mind to retire. However, it is not necessary that the player has to give this information to the Chief Selector. But it is necessary to inform the board about this.

The cricketer’s decision to retire is completely personal. No coach, staff member or BCCI official can force the players to retire. Players can declare their retirement in many ways. Cheteshwar Pujara recently informed about retirement through social media. Prior to him, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli also announced his retirement from the Test on social media.

Apart from this, players can also announce retirement in a press conference. Ravichandran Ashwin confirmed his retirement at the press conference during the Australian tour.

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Cheteshwar Pujara on Sunday broke the hearts of fans by retiring from all the formats of cricket. He represented India in 103 Tests and 5 ODIs in his career. In the IPL, he played a total of 30 matches for KKR, RCB and Punjab Kings. Pujara made his special identity in Test cricket, he was called a wall because like Dravid, he too could not get out of good bowlers quickly. Pujara is the 18th cricketer, who announced his retirement in 2025. Earlier, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli said goodbye to Test cricket and many cricketers retired from all three formats.

The cricketers who retired in 2025 include the names of Nicholas Puran and Heinrich Klassen. This name is surprising because he is still very young. West Indies batsman Puran is just 29 years old, while South African wicketkeeper batsman Heinrich Klassen said goodbye to international cricket at the age of 33.

Players who retired from all three formats of cricket in 2025

Apart from Puran and Klassen, this year India’s wicket -keeper batsman Reidhiman Saha, Varun Aaron, Piyush Chawla, New Zealand opener Martin Guptill, Tamim Iqbal of Bangladesh, Shapur Jadaran of Afghanistan, Dimuth Karunaratne of Sri Lanka and Andre Rasel of West Indies accepted all the format of cricket.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired from Test

Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Test cricket on 7 May, on May 12, on May 12, Virat Kohli also retired from cricket’s longest format. Both played many memorable innings for India, both were also the captain of the Test team. This year Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews also retired from Test cricket.

These cricketers retired from ODI in 2025

Steve Smith of Australia announced his retirement from ODI cricket on 5 March 2025. Explosive batsmen like Australia’s Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell also retired from ODI cricket this year. Apart from this, Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh also announced his retirement from ODI cricket in March this year. In the year 2025, 8 months have passed and many veteran cricketers have retired.

Veda Krishnamurthy, who was the middle order batsman of the Indian team, has suddenly announced retirement. He confirmed his retirement through social media. Krishnamurthy was last seen representing the Indian women’s cricket team in the year 2020. He played a total of 124 matches for Team India, including ODI and T20. Annandering retirement, he thanked all those who supported him in this memorable journey.

Veda Krishnamurthy played 48 ODIs and 76 T20 matches for India, in which he scored 829 and 875 runs respectively. He also has 3 wickets in ODI cricket. He wrote a passionate post on social media and wrote that the journey from a small city to wearing an Indian jersey was proud. She said that she is putting a full health on playing cricket, but is not giving up the game of cricket.

32 -year -old Veda Krishnamurthy married Arjun Hoysala, who played for Karnataka. She was last seen playing for Team India in 2020, where she scored 19 runs in 24 balls against Australia in Melbourne. At the same time, his last ODI match came in 2018.

Krishnamurthy was known for playing strong shots. He had played the last competitive cricket match till now for Gujarat giants in WPL last year. He also faced many difficulties in his life because Krishnamurthy’s mother and sister died during the Covid epidemic.

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Fact check axar patel retirement: On the one hand, RCB is celebrating to become an IPL champion for the first time. On the other hand, Delhi Capital captain Akshar Patel has retired. Patel says that he has decided to say goodbye to cricket. Yes, a video has created a sensation on social media just after the closing of IPL 2025. In this viral video, Akshar Patel is seen saying that his journey was only here.

In this video, Akshar Patel gave a retirement speech, saying, “Very important announcement. It is not easy for me to announce this. Cricket has given me everything, my identity and your love, but every journey has an end. Maybe my journey was from me and cricket.”

What is the truth?

Akshar Patel is one of the best all -rounders of India. When ABP Live examined the video, it was found that Akshar Patel has not retired from cricket because this video going viral is made from AI. Akshar Patel himself has neither given any statement on his retirement nor shared any post. At the same time, BCCI has also not confirmed any such confirmation. In IPL 2025, Akshar Patel was captaining Delhi Capitals. The Delhi team had to be satisfied with the fifth place in the points table. Patel is also the vice -captain of the Indian T20 team.

Remind that within the last one month, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have said goodbye to Test cricket. Both these senior players said goodbye to the T20 format last year. After Virat-Rohit’s T20 retiring, Akshar Patel is one of the most senior players in the T20 team.

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