{"id":121945,"date":"2021-08-31T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121945"},"modified":"2021-08-31T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:56:59","slug":"steyn-announces-bittersweet-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121945","title":{"rendered":"Steyn announces &#039;bittersweet&#039; retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/dale-steyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"South African great Dale Steyn\">South African great Dale Steyn<\/a> has announced his retirement from all forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"cricket\">cricket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring from Test cricket in 2019, Steyn, 38, has been focusing on limited-overs formats of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The superstar fast bowler, who took 439 wickets in 93 Test matches for South Africa, last appeared on the international scene back in February 2020 during a T20 against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today I officially retire from the game I love most. Bittersweet but graceful,&quot; Steyn wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thank you to everyone, from family to teammates, journalists to fans, it&#x27;s been an incredible journey together.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5ab8455c-b1e7-4831-aea9-b3b61eb5845e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5ab8455c-b1e7-4831-aea9-b3b61eb5845e\" alt=\"Dale Steyn \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crowned the ICC 2008 Test Cricketer of the Year, Steyn was famously the No.1 bowler in the Test rankings for a record 263 weeks between 2008 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s been 20 years of training, matches, travel, wins, losses, strapped feet, jet lag, joy, and brotherhood. There are too many memories to tell,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaleSteyn62\/status\/1432646209873891328\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaleSteyn62\/status\/1432646209873891328<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South African great Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Since retiring from Test cricket in 2019, Steyn, 38, has been <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=121945\" title=\"Steyn announces &#039;bittersweet&#039; retirement\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121947,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121945\/revisions\/121947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}