{"id":6702,"date":"2025-06-02T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:00:13","slug":"klaasen-announces-shock-exit-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/02\/klaasen-announces-shock-exit-from-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaasen announces shock exit from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"South Africa wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen announced his retirement from the international game.<br \/>The swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batter, who made his debut in 2018, took to social media to announce his retirement.<br \/><br \/>In his statement, Klaasen mentioned how difficult it was for him to arrive at this decision.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;It is a sad day for me as I announce that I have decided to step away from international cricket. It took me a long time to decide what\u2019s best for me and my family for the future. It was truly a very difficult decision but also one that I have absolute peace with.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Klaasen, who featured in 122 internationals for the Proteas, felt gratitude towards his coaches during his cricketing journey.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;I have made great friendships and relationships that I will treasure for life. Playing for the Proteas gave me the opportunity to meet great people that changed my life, and to those people I can\u2019t say thank you enough.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;My road to wearing the Proteas shirt was different than most and there were certain coaches in my career that kept believing in me &#8211; to them I will always be grateful.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;To have played with the Proteas badge on my chest was and will always be the biggest honour in my career.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Klaasen&#8217;s iconic whip-pull off the spinners made him a dangerous prospect across the formats for South Africa. He was a member of the South Africa side that featured in the recent ICC Men&#8217;s Cricket World Cup 2023, ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup 2024, and the ICC Men&#8217;s Champions Trophy 2025.<br \/><br \/>He scored 2141 runs with a highest score of 174 in his 60 ODIs at an average of 43.69. In the T20Is, he scored 1000 runs with a highest score of 81 and a strike rate of 141.84.<br \/><br \/>Klaasen had earlier retired from Tests in January 2024, having featured in four games in the longest format.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen announced his retirement from the international game.The swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batter, who made his debut in 2018, took to social media to announce his retirement. In his statement, Klaasen mentioned how difficult it was for him to arrive at this decision. &#8220;It is a sad day for me as I announce that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-example-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}