Australian player Peter Siddle suddenly retired from all cricket formats

Australian cricketer Peter Siddle has announced his retirement from all formats of domestic cricket. Playing for Victoria, he announced his retirement after dashing Western Australia's hopes of winning the Sheffield Shield for the fourth consecutive time. Victoria captain Will Sutherland said, "Of course his career was incredible. We are still trying to convince him to play again next season." He retired from international cricket on 29 December 2019.

In the Sheffield Shield 2025, Australia won the toss from Western Australia and invited Victoria to bat first. Victoria scored 197 runs in the first innings of this match restricting Western Australia to 186 runs and took a slight lead of 11 runs. At the same time, Victoria scored 370/9d in the second innings and gave a target of 382 runs based on the first innings. However, while chasing the target, the entire team of Western Australia could score only 347 runs.

Thus, Victoria emerged victorious in this game by a margin of 34 runs. Peter Siddle bowled 13.2 overs in the first innings of this match and claimed 3 wickets for 10 runs, with 8 maiden overs, while in the second innings against Western Australia, he claimed 4 wickets for 68 runs in 17.2 overs and with that, he wrapped up his 19-year long first-class career.

Peter Siddle's first-class career has been very brilliant. He has taken a total of 792 wickets in 231 first-class matches at an economy of 2.81. At the same time, he has scored a total of 3990 runs in the same number of matches at an average of 16.08 and a strike rate of 50.67. His highest score in first class is 103 not out. He has 1 century and six half-centuries in first-class cricket.

Peter Siddle took a total of 221 wickets in 67 Test matches for Australia at an economy of 2.92. Apart from this, he also scored a total of 1164 runs in the same number of matches at an average of 14.73 and a strike rate of 47.16. He also played 20 ODIs for Australia, in which he took 17 wickets, while in the same number of matches, he contributed a total of 30 runs with the bat.