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7 Cricketers Hitting Century in their Last ODI Match

Scoring a century in the first match of the career is one thing and scoring the same in the last match of the cricket career is another thing. Scoring heavy runs in the last ODI before retirement is so very prestigious for a cricketer. Don’t you agree? As much as the overall career performances of a cricketer help in boosting the scoreboard of the fantasy cricket games, the last century helps the cricketers to stay in the memory of their fans.

Let’s dig out 7 players who have hit a century in their last ODI match and meanwhile you start making your fantasy cricket team for the next match at 11wickets.com

DL Amiss

Dennis Amiss is the English cricketer who played both for England and Warwickshire. In his last ODI match, he scored 108 runs of 146 balls against Australia on 6 June 1977 at the Oval. He had hit 7 fours with a strike rate of 73.97.

CT Radley

Clive Radley is the former English cricketer playing for England. In his last ODI match against New Zealand in Manchester on 17 July 1978, he score 117* runs of 140 balls hitting 11 fours and with a strike rate of 83.57.

DL Haynes

Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He played his last ODI match on 5 March 1994 and scored a hundred. He made 115 runs of 112 balls against England in the Port of Spain. With a strike rate of 102.67, he had hit 14 fours.

JF Kloppenburg

Feiko Kloppenburg is a former Dutch cricketer, playing for Netherlands, who ended his ODI career with a marvellous hundred. He scored 121 runs of 142 balls against Namibia on 3 March 2003 at Bloemfontein. He had hit 6 fours and 4 sixes with 85.21 strike rate.

KJJ van Noortwijk

Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk is another former Dutch cricketer playing for the same team. Like Kloppenburg, Noortwijk too ended his ODI career on 3 March 2003 at Bloemfontein and he too scored a hundred in that match. He scored 134* runs of 129 balls. He had hit 11 fours and 3 sixes at a strike rate of 103.87 against Namibia.

JAH Marshall

James Marshall is the former opening batsman of New Zealand. He played his last ODI against Ireland and scored a hundred. Of 141 balls he made 161 runs on 1 July 2008 at the ground of Aberdeen. He had hit 11 fours and 4 sixes at a strike rate of 114.18.

RN ten Doeschate

Ryan ten Doeschate is a Dutch cricketer who represented Netherlands. In his last ODI match he made 106 runs of 108 balls against Ireland on 18 March 2011 in Kolkata. He had hit 13 fours and 1 six with a strike rate of 98.14.

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