Thread: Hussain retires from all first class cricket
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Old 27-05-2004, 01:08 PM in reply to Electric Vic's post "Flabbergasted"
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Originally Posted by Electric Vic
The retirement from all cricket suggests there's more to his decision than not wanting to stand in Strauss' way.
i'm not so sure, he's long been of the ian botham line of once you retire from being england eligible you should leave all cricket so the next generation can take your place, so that bit didn't surprise me and is consistent with his views on things, i was more surprised that he didn't at least finish the season with essex.