List of Cricketers Who Retired in 2025: The year 2025 has not been kind to cricket fans. Several cricketers have announced their retirements from one or every format of the game till now and it has not been six months into the year. There have been several players who have decided to hang up their boots, either from one specific format or from international cricket as a whole and the list has witnessed continuous additions so far. Cheteshwar Pujara is the latest name to be added to the list after the India National Cricket Team Test stalwart announced his retirement from all forms of Indian cricket. Meanwhile, let us take a look at the list of cricketers who have retired in 2025. Virat Kohli Test Retirement: BCCI Highlights Memorable Achievements of Star Cricketer’s Career As He Retires from Longest Format of Cricket.

The most shocking retirements that the cricketing fraternity has witnessed in 2025 were of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Steve Smith. While the last two announced their retirement from Test cricket, Smith drew curtains on his ODI career after the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. For Smith, 2027 is distant and he wants to focus on the red-ball cricket with the Ashes arriving. Meanwhile, Rohit and Virat have not been in the best of form with the bat in Test cricket and will now only play in ODIs. Meanwhile, fans eager to know the names of cricketers who have retired in 2025 will get all the information here. Rohit Sharma Shares His Thoughts About Dealing With Criticism, Says Players Have Built ‘Thick Skin’ (Watch Video).

List of Players Who Retired in 2025

Bangladesh cricket has faced a big loss in terms of retirement as their big five players are at the dusk of their careers, with Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim, and Tamim Iqbal also now announcing multi-format retirement. Sri Lanka, too, sees their star players Angelo Matthews and Dimuth Karunaratne bid adieu to Test and international cricket, respectively. Afghanistan’s Shapoor Zadran also decided to finish his international career, announcing his retirement from all formats in January.

Glenn Maxwell of Australia became the latest player to retire from the ODI format, thereby ending all hopes of playing in the ICC ODI 2027 World Cup for Australia. Following Maxwell’s retirement, South Africa’s wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen retired from international cricket with immediate effect. Recently, India women’s national cricket team player Veda KrishnaMurthy announced her retirement from professional cricket with immediate effect.

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