Daryl Mitchell: Worcestershire legend retires at the end of 2021 at the age of 37

Worcestershire legend Daryl Mitchell will retire at the end of the season after 19 years of service on New Road.

Mitchell, 37, who has been president of the Professional Cricketers ’Association since 2017, focuses instead on his own Full-time role with PCA.

“I’ve had a great time here,” Mitchell said. “I’ll be moving into a PCA full-time starting in October.”

He added: “I am lucky and in a privileged position to be able to move from playing to this role.”

Mitchell was the first Worcestershire captain to be born within the county within 85 years took over as Vikram Solank in August 2010.

Pear twice won the first division of the County Championship Division during his captain, which he relinquished at the end of the 2016 season when he was replaced by Joe Leach and was then Chairman of the PCA.

He was also a member of the Worcestershire team, winning the Pro40 title in 2007 and the T20 Blast in 2018.

In addition to his 2310 run at 22.20 in the T20, Mitchell is the only Worcestershire player to have taken the wickets of the century with his game-changing mediums – a figure that is now 101, at an economic level of 7.68.

He also made 3,466 runs with 33.65 in List A cricket, where he took 81 throws.

In a first-class game, he had an unusual lead in County Championship cricket in Worcestershire as the first midfielder in June 2005 when Gareth Batty was called to test drive against Somerset during a visiting match in Bath and Mitchell played the last two matches. days.

It took 42 minutes to make just 4 before Andy Caddick left his foot trapped. But he replaced it the following week when he made his full debut, hitting number six, and he made an unbeaten five-hour half-century pears against Leicestershire on Grace Road.

He opened the punch for the first time in the final game of the 2005 season — and he’s stayed there ever since in the red ball cricket and has reached 38 hundred (sixth on Worcestershire’s all-time centenary list). Of the 13,874 first-class runs, an average of 38.75.

Changes in a new way

Mitchell’s farewell is the latest bunch of experienced players from New Road in recent weeks.

Riki Wessels left on 31 July when he was granted early release from a contract due to expire at the end of the period.

Ross Whiteley He then announced that he would not accept the offer for a new contract and is now a target for both Sussex and Yorkshire.

In addition, Wayne Parnell did not see the last planned year of the three – year contract and signed for Northants instead March because Pears could no longer use him as a Kolpak player after Brexit.

In addition to Mitchell, Whiteley and Parnell, there is speculation about the future of Moeen Ali, another member of the Worcestershire T20 Blast that has already won.

The UK multi-player has only one season left on the five-year contract signed in November 2017.

Born in Birmingham, Moeen, 34, has long been involved in moving back to Edgbaston to join his first County Warwickshire – and he led Birmingham Phoenix to the first hundred finals this summer.