West Indies cricketer Roston Chase became the first-ever full-member player in the history of T20Is to retire out. He made the move during the third T20I of the Pakistan tour of the West Indies, played on August 4, where the visitors secured a 13-run victory.
Pakistan secured a 2-1 victory in the T20I leg of the white-ball tour against the West Indies. The Men in Greens posted 189 runs in the first innings of the game, went on to limit the West Indies to 176, and won the game by 13 runs.
Roston Chase scored 15 runs off 12 deliveries; however, he retired out. Chase became the very first player from the full-member team to be retired out in a T20I.
He came out to bat when the West Indies’ score was 110/3, when the side needed 80 runs off the last seven overs. Chase retired due to his inability to rotate the strike. He had two boundaries in the 12 balls that he faced, and a lot of pressure came onto the shoulders of Sherfane Rutherford.
In the end, Pakistan ended up limiting the West Indies, winning the game and clinching the series as well.
There has been only one previous instance of a batter retiring out in a men’s T20I featuring a full member team, in the 2024 T20 World Cup, Nikolaas Davin retired out after scoring 18 runs from 16 balls in a chase f 126 in ten overs against England in North Sound.
The other ten such dismissals have all been recorded in matches involving two Associate teams.
Roston Chase had been retired out once before in a T20, at the ILT20 earlier this year. His team Abu Dhabi Knight Riders batted first in that game against MI Emirates, and Chase batting at No. 6 had the 12th over, scoring 20 runs in 13 deliveries at the end of the 18th over, when he was retired out.
