Moeen Ali Reflects On His Career After Retirement: Moeen Ali decided to no longer play cricket for England as the 37-year-old announced his retirement from international cricket on 8 September.
Ali played 68 games in the red-ball cricket and smacked 5 hundreds. In his career, either in red-all or white-ball cricket, his positions in the team were all over, starting from the opener to sometimes being No.8 or No.9.
Moeen Ali Reflects On His Career After Retirement
Speaking to former England cricketer Nasser Hussain, Moeen Ali got candid about his career.
“I’m also proud of getting five Test hundreds. It’s only five, but it means a lot, especially when I was often down the order. There were times I felt I left runs out there or didn’t do my batting justice. There were brainfades, but I enjoyed batting like that. They [the brainfades] often came from not having a role in the side.”
“Also, I didn’t have the discipline of a Joe Root. I tried to rectify that, but I just didn’t have it: I was a go-with-the-flow player. There were times I did things I shouldn’t have done. But it was almost exciting, as I’d wake up and think: I don’t know what I’m going to get here.”
In another interview with the Daily Mail, Moeen Ali said that he felt it was time to hang up the pads.
“I’m 37 years old and didn’t get picked for this month’s Australia series. I’ve played a lot of cricket for England. It’s time for the next generation, which was also explained to me. It felt the time was right. I’ve done my part,” Ali said in an Daily Mail interview (via ICC).
“I’m very proud. When you first play for England, you don’t know how many games you’re going to play. So to play nearly 300…My first few years were all about Test cricket. Once Morgs [Eoin Morgan] took over the one-day stuff, that was more fun. But Test cricket was the proper cricket.”
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