Dawid Malan Calls Time On International Career

Dawid Malan Calls Time On International Career

The English batter was the number 1 T20I-ranked batter for England.

Deepansh Bajaj Aug. 28, 2024

England batter Dawid Malan has called time on his International career, Malan is the only batter after Jos Buttler who has scored centuries for England in all three formats.

Malan played 62 T20Is for England scoring 1892 runs, he featured in 30 ODIs & 22 Test matches scoring 1450 & 1074 runs respectively.

Malan started his T20I career with a bang scoring 78 runs off 44 in his debut T20 match against South Africa in 2017. He made his test debut soon but with dwindling returns.

Malan had a great time in T20Is in 2020, where he reached the top of the T20I rankings, he also became the fastest batter to reach, 1K runs in just 24 innings.

Speaking to Times, Malan stated that he was disappointed to not have played well in the test format, Malan last donned the England test jersey in 2022 against Australia at Hobart.

"Test Cricket is something which is the most important format for me, I just didn't live up to my potential or wasn't just consistent enough in the white jersey, something which I did exceedingly well in the white-ball cricket ."

Malan last played for England in the ODI World Cup in 2023 against Pakistan at Kolkata.

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