Heinrich klaasen retirement: South African legendary Henrik Klassen has announced retirement from international cricket. He said that representing the country was the biggest respect for him and the decision to retire was very difficult for him. Klassen played the first international match for South Africa in a ODI match. He scored 3,245 runs in his entire international career.

Henrich Klassen has shared a picture with his family on Instagram, through which he ruled that he is going away from cricket. He said, “Representing the country was a matter of pride for me, I used to dream this since childhood.” Klassen also said that in this magnificent cricket career, he also got such people, with whom his life changed.

Henrich Klassen gave the reason for retirement, saying, “I am now hoping that I will be able to spend more time with the family as I will be able to do it after retirement.” Klassen thanked all those who have helped them reach this point in cricket.

Test retirement was taken last year

Heinrich Klassen said goodbye to Test cricket in January last year. He played only 4 matches in his red-ball career in which he was able to score only 104 runs. Now he has also said goodbye to ODI and T20 formats. In his 60 ODI career, he scored 2,141 runs, including 4 centuries and 11 fifty. He was identified for his rapid batting in T20, where he scored 1,000 runs in 58 matches for South Africa.

Henrich Klassen played his last match for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2025 so far. In his last match, he played an unbeaten 105 -run innings against KKR. The last match for South Africa played against New Zealand in March 2025.

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Srh vs kkr 1st innings highlights: Henrich Klassen has scored 105 runs in 39 balls and Travis Head 40 balls 76 runs, so Sunrisers Hyderabad scored the third highest score in the history of IPL. The Hyderabad batsmen at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium washed away the Kolkata bowlers. Hyderabad scored 278 for 3 wickets in 20 overs. Hyderabad is also in the name of Hyderabad’s record of making the biggest score of IPL.

Klassen and head batting

For Hyderabad, Heinrich Klassen scored a century in just 37 balls. He returned unbeaten for 105 runs in 39 balls. During this time, 7 fours and 9 sixes came out of his bat. Earlier, Travis Head scored 76 runs in 40 balls thanks to 6 fours and 6 sixes.

After winning the toss, Hyderabad started to bat first. Abhishek Sharma scored 32 runs in 16 balls. 4 fours and two sixes came out of his bat. In the powerplay, Hyderabad scored 79 runs without losing any wicket. In 6.5 overs, the first wicket fell on a total score of 92, while Henrik Klassen was sent to Henrik Klassen in place of Ishaan Kishan at number three.

Klassen scored a half -century in just 17 balls and then scored a century in 37 balls. Klassen’s bat led to 7 fours and 9 sixes. Travis Head played 76 runs in 40 balls. The head hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. Ishaan Kishan came for batting at number four. Ishaan hit 4 fours and a six. Aniket Verma returned unbeaten for 12 runs in six balls. He hit a four and a six.

Fastest century for Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad player Henrik Klassen has created history in this season of IPL. Klassen scored a century in 37 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders. With this century, Klassen has become the fastest 100 for SRH. At the same time, this century of Klassen is the third fastest century in IPL history.