England: England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who last represented England in their
semi-final loss to India at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 in Guyana, has
retired from all international games. He believed that the time was right for him
after understanding that he was no longer in consideration for the side's future
assignments. So, he announced his retirement from international cricket on
Sunday after not being selected for the white-ball series against Australia this
month.
Moeen believed that his call was keeping in mind England's needs, which feature
the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026, a team
looking to rebuild ahead of their upcoming white-ball cycle. In the Daily Mail,
Moeen said in an interview with former England captain Nasser Hussain, "I'm 37
years old and didn't get picked for the upcoming Australia series. For England, I've
played a lot of cricket. It's time for me to step aside and give the chance to the
next generation, which was also explained to me. It felt like the right time. My
part has been done".
Making his white ball debut for the England cricket team in 2014, against the
West Indies. Moeen Ali went on to represent England in 138 ODIs, 68 Tests, and
92 T20Is over his ten-year career. During these years, he scored 6,678 runs,
including 8 centuries and 28 half-centuries, and took 366 wickets for England
across the three formats. He won the 2022 T20 World Cup and 2019 Cricket
World Cup with the senior men's side.
I'm very proud. When you first play for England, how many games you're going to
play that you don't know. I played nearly 300. My first few years were all about
only Test cricket. Once Eoin Morgan took over the one-day stuff, that was more
fun. But Test cricket was proper cricket," Moeen said.
"I've tried to be realistic even now. I could hold on and try to play for England
again, but in reality, I know I won't. Even retiring, I don't feel it's because I'm not
good enough—I still feel I can play. But I understand how things are, and the team
also needs to evolve into another cycle. It's about being real with myself.
People forget the impact you make in games. It might only have been 20 or 30,
but it was a crucial 20 or 30. It was about making an impact for me. On and off the

field, I know what I brought to the side. As long as I felt people enjoyed watching
me play, whether or not I played well, I was happy with that.
It's something that, as a young player, I felt it was the more proper form of cricket
and also the most important format. Especially when you would play right after
red-ball cricket, white-ball cricket was more fun, I almost saw it as a time to wind
down and relax from red-ball" he further added.