{"id":146144,"date":"2018-05-23T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=146144"},"modified":"2018-05-23T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:31:08","slug":"tired-said-villiers-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/tired-said-villiers-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"I am tired said Villiers- retired&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a massive blow for the Proteas as they will have to do without the services of de Villiers for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.He has retired from the game in a sudden move.I am tired he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former South Africa skipper said the \u2018time was right for him\u2019 to call it quits in his stellar international career spanning 14 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have decided to retire from all international cricket with immediate effect,\u201d he said on Wednesday. \u201cAfter 114 Test matches, 228 ODI\u2019s and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/rf\/image_size_960x540\/HT\/p2\/2017\/06\/30\/Pictures\/south-africa-upheld-appeal-batman-villiers-given_1c2f45e2-5d50-11e7-a18d-042ec35e3331.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for devilliers\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is a tough decision, I have thought long and hard about it and I\u2019d like to retire while still playing decent cricket. After the fantastic series wins against India and Australia, now feels like the right time to step aside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a massive blow for the Proteas as they will have to do without the services of de Villiers for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.He has retired from the game in a sudden move.I am tired he said. The former South Africa skipper said the \u2018time was right for him\u2019 to call it quits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[75509,75510,75511,75512,75513,75514,75515,75508,9359,70859],"class_list":["post-146144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ab-de-villiers-retires","tag-ab-de-villiers-retires-from-international-cricket","tag-devilliers-fastest-fifty","tag-devilliers-fastest-hunderd","tag-devilliers-rcb","tag-devilliers-records","tag-devlliers-international-cricket","tag-i-am-tired-said-villiers-retired","tag-south-africa","tag-sports-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Untitled-1-copy-17.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}