London: Australia's Michael di Venuto has retired from English county cricket with immediate effect, the Durham batsman said on Monday.
The 38-year-old left-hander who previously played county cricket for Sussex and Derbyshire, joined north-east side Durham in 2007 and helped the club win the domestic 50-over trophy, their first major piece of silverware, in his first season at the Riverside.
Such was Australia's batting strength in the prime of his career, Di Venuto was restricted to just nine one-day internationals, all in 1997, and never played Test cricket.
However, he played a key role in helping Durham win back-to-back first-class County Championship titles, including a huge haul of 1,654 runs, with two double hundreds, when they won the competition for a second time in 2009....
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