Collingwood calls time on Test career
6 January 2011
England’s Paul Collingwood has announced his retirement from Test cricket at the end of the Ashes series.
The 34-year-old revealed his decision before play got under way on the fourth morning of the final Test in Sydney.
He will continue to captain the Twenty20 side and play one-day cricket, the ECB confirmed.
An Ashes series triumph would be a fitting finale to a distinguished Test career, which began in 2003.
Although he has endured a lean tour of Australia with the bat, Collingwood nonetheless boasts a fine record.
Assuming he does not bat again in this Test, his 68th, he will retire having scored 4,259 runs at an average of 40.56, including 210 centuries.
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