Australia captain Meg Lanning quits international cricket after winning 7 World Cup titles

Meg Lanning retires from int'l cricket after 241 matches, 7 World Cup titles. She leaves behind a successful Australian team, having scored 8,352 runs, 17 centuries & 38 half-centuries. She was the youngest ever Aussie skipper at 21 & led 182 matches, more than any other women's player.

Australia women’s national team captain Meg Lanning has announced her retirement from international cricket after winning seven World Cup titles during a 241-match career.

The 31-year-old Lanning, who played six Tests, 103 one-day internationals and 132 Twenty20 internationals, will continue playing domestic cricket in Australia and possibly India.

“The decision to step away from international cricket was a difficult one to make, but I feel now is the right time for me,” Lanning said Thursday in a statement “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to enjoy a 13-year international career."

Speaking later outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of family and friends, Lanning said she had tried to talk herself out of ending her international career.

“I’m sad that it’s finishing up, but I’m very much ready for something new,” Lanning said. “I feel like now I’ve got nothing left to achieve on the international stage. For me, I I can’t be half in or half out with anything and I guess that’s that’s where I’ve landed with this decision.”

Lanning broke down when thanking her father Wayne and mother Sue, who attended their daughter’s farewell press conference. Lanning was born in Singapore when her father was a banker there.

Lanning, who won two ODIs World Cups and five T20 World Cups, amassed 8,352 runs in international cricket after making her debut in 2010. That total included 17 centuries and 38 half-centuries.