Doug Bracewell Retires From International Cricket: In international cricket, fierce competition is seen in the matches played between Australia and New Zealand. However, in Test cricket, Australia has dominated New Zealand in the last one and a half decade. New Zealand has not been able to win a Test over Australia since 2011. All-rounder Doug Bracewell, who led New Zealand to its last Test win over Australia in 2011, has retired from all formats of cricket. New Zealand Cricket has informed about Doug Bracewell’s retirement from all formats of cricket through its social media page. 35-year-old Doug Bracewell made his debut for New Zealand in all three formats in 2011 against Zimbabwe.

Doug Bracewell gave the best performance of his career in 2011

Doug Bracewell gave the best performance of his career in 2011 against Australia on its own soil. In the year 2011, New Zealand was on a tour of Australia for a two-Test series. In the first Test played in Brisbane, New Zealand had to face defeat by 9 wickets. The second test was played in Hobart. New Zealand won this match by 7 wickets and leveled the series. Doug Bracewell played a memorable role in helping the team win by 7 runs by taking a total of 9 wickets including 3 wickets in the first innings of this match and 6 wickets in the second innings. New Zealand Cricket has mentioned this performance of Bracewell on its X account and wished him all the best for his career.

This has been Doug Bracewell’s career.

Doug Bracewell’s career has been full of ups and downs. He was in and out of the team several times. He played his last international match, which was a Test, against Sri Lanka in March 2023. Between 2011 and 2023, Doug Bracewell played 28 Tests, 21 ODIs and 20 T20s for New Zealand. He has 568 runs and 74 wickets in Test, 221 runs and 26 wickets in ODI, and 126 runs and 20 wickets in 11 innings of T20 International.

New Zealand all-rounder Doug Bracewell has retired from all forms of cricket. Bracewell represented the New Zealand team in 69 international cricket matches, in which he took 120 wickets and scored a total of 915 runs in batting. Bracewell played his last international match against Sri Lanka.

Doug Bracewell recently suffered a rib injury, after which he had to say goodbye to the game of cricket. New Zealand Cricket Board has also officially confirmed Bracewell’s retirement on social media platform X.

Confirming Doug Bracewell’s retirement, the New Zealand Cricket Board wrote, “All-rounder Doug Bracewell has retired from all forms of cricket. Bracewell played 28 Tests, 21 ODI and 20 T20 matches for New Zealand, in which he scored 120 wickets and 915 runs. He played an important role in New Zealand’s last Test victory over Australia in Obert. He took 6 wickets for 40 runs in the second innings. Gave us a memorable win by 7 runs, Doug, congratulations on a great career.

Doug Bracewell said on his retirement that playing cricket for New Zealand was his greatest pride. In his first-class career, he took 422 wickets in 137 matches. In his long first-class career, he also scored 4,505 runs including 3 centuries and 24 half-centuries.

Let us tell you that India vs New Zealand ODI series is going to start in a few days. India vs New Zealand ODI series will start from January 11. Doug Bracewell took a total of 5 wickets in 4 ODI and 2 Test matches against India.

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