Australia batsman Adam Voges has hinted he is all set to bring curtains down on his international career.
Speaking a day before leading Australia’s Prime Minister’s XI against Sri Lanka at Canberra, the 37-year old said that it would be his last game against an international team.
“This will be it for me,” Voges said. “I’m certainly looking forward to getting out there and playing this game. I’ve had an amazing couple of years with Australia with the Test team and I’ve loved every minute of it.
The right-handed batsman was dropped from the Test team after Australia lost the home Test series against South Africa. After failing to do well in the first two Tests against the Proteas, he was ruled out of the remainder of the series after suffering a concussion in the Sheffield Shield.
The concussion ultimately cost Voges his Test spot as hi replacement Peter Handscomb went on to cement his place in the team.
Prior to that, Voges had scored 1485 runs in 20 matches at an average of over 60. But with the Australian team willing to give the youngsters an extended run, Voges, it seems, has accepted the fact that it will be tough for him to break into the Australian team again,
“I see this as a last opportunity to play against an international team and I’m certainly looking forward to that,” he added.
Voges made his Test debut in 2015 against the West Indies and at 35 became the oldest player in Test history to make a century on debut. But he struggled during the Ashes tour of England, scoring 201 runs in 5 matches. However, his best time in international cricket followed soon as he piled up mountains of runs in the summer of 2015 which included double-centuries against both West Indies and New Zealand, and his average even went above 100 during the tour of New Zealand.Since then his average has seen a steady decline and now stands at 61.87 but it is still the second-highest average – behind only Don Bradman – among all batsmen with a minimum of 20 Tests.