Top 5 Cricketers Who Returned After Retirement

Top 5 Cricketers Who Returned After Retirement - This list includes cricketers like most controvertial Shahid Afridi retirement, Peterson's retirement, Javed Miandad retirement and many more.

Retirement is unfortunately something every player must face. No matter how much he loves the game. Many cricketers goes to become coaches or try their hand at something that they did not have time for while they followed the lengthy scheduled of international cricket and some come back again. Won't we give anything to see Sachin or ABD make a comeback? For a time they are not planning to but let's the instances of five cricketers who come back after retirement.

Afridi probably holds the record for retiring the most no. of times. In 2010, he has made the test captain of Pakistan side and after just a single match he quit. His reason was lack of form and inability to play longer version of cricket. He next retired after he lead Pakistan to the semi-final of 2011 World Cup. After being replaced by misbal-ul-Haq as skipper Afridi again announced retirement citing differences with coach Waqas. He cam back after that too. He has been criticized by Imran Khan for this act. Khan called Afridi's retirement a joke. 19 February 2017 he retired from international cricket only to come back one more match for charity and then retire for good, we hope.

Imran Khan is widely acknowledge as Pakistan's most successful cricket captain. He retired after the 1987 World Cup. Pakistan's president Zia-ul-Haq wanted for comeback to cricket on popular demand. He made a comeback in 1992 at the age of 39. He then lead his team to their first and only World Cup victory. He has been inducted in the ICC Hall Of Fame. He is also one of the aged cricketer in the world to achieve all-rounder triples in test. The current PM of Pakistan is easily the most successful comeback in cricket.

In May 2011, Peterson announced his retirement from limited over cricket. He has the distinction of being the fastest batsman to reach both the 1000 and 2000 mark in ODI. He has been called "England's Greatest Batsman by The Guardian". He has had issue with the ECB and coach Peter Morse. He announced his comeback just a few few months after his retirement. Saying that he is committed to playing for England in all forms of cricket. His relationship with ECB never really recovered and he was eventually told that he was not long considered for selection.

Hooper hold the records of being the first cricketer in the world to have scored five thousand runs, taken 100 wickets, held 100 catches and receives 100 caps in both ODI and Test. In all these years apart Jacques Kallis no one has been able to match this feat. Which is why everyone was stunned when he suddenly announced his retirement out of the blue three weeks before World Cup. There are many theories of why he quit suddenly. But he left the selector in lurch. He came back from retirement tin 2001 at a time when West Indies team was playing abysmally. He also lead the West Indies side in 2003 World Cup. West Indies did not perform well and Hooper was replaced.

Javed Miandad has been defined as the greatest batsman Pakistan ever produce by ESPN cricket info. Javed Miandad captained Pakistan on many occasions. He hold the record of being the first player to have played six World Cup. The only other being Sachin Tendulkar. Javed is probably the cricketer who has retired for the shortest. Merely 10 days after announcing his retirement. He came back to international cricket following a conversation with the that time Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto.