DUE TO LUNG DISEASE: JOHN HASTINGS RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

Australia’s all-rounder announce retirement
DUE TO LUNG DISEASE: JOHN HASTINGS RETIRES FROM INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

Hastings said that he will not take risk of his left if he continues playing cricket then it may cause his death or serious injury because he is suffering from a serious lung disease

Already get retire from ODI and test cricket last year but he continued to play T20

The right-arm medium-fast bowler has 50 wickets to his name from 39 international matches. Batting down the order, the bowling all-rounder has made 369 international runs in 29 ODIs, nine T20 is and one test match combined.

He told to Fairfax Media "I've gone through an extensive testing process. I suppose the important thing to note is that I'm actually in good health. I've gone through stress tests and bronchoscopes, and angiogram bronchoscopes and all this sort of stuff. It's been quite invasive, and lengthy I guess,"

"It's (only) when I bowl. The pressure at the crease, little blood vessels in my lungs burst. That determines that I cough up blood on a regular basis when I'm trying to bowl. It's a really scary thing,"

He played for Victoria and Melbourne Durham in stars at home and English County in his 11 years old career

In the Indian premier league, the new south Wales-born cricketer represented Chennai super kings, Kolkata knight riders and Kochi tusker's Kerala. He also featured in the Pakistan super league, representing Quetta gladiators.

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