AHMEDABAD: Priyank Panchal, who captained India ‘A’ and played a key role in Gujarat’s maiden title-winning Ranji Trophy campaign in 2016-17, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Monday. His decision was conveyed by the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA).
Panchal’s last match was the Ranji Trophy semifinal against Kerala, in which the visitors edged Gujarat dramatically by virtue of a two-run first-innings lead. Panchal smashed a superb 148 in that match.
Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Panchal played 127 first-class matches, including 99 Ranji Trophy Matches for Gujarat. He scored 8,856 runs with 29 hundred and 34 fifties, with an unbeaten 314 being his highest. The 35-year-old finishes as Gujarat’s second-highest run-getter in first-class cricket, just 19 runs short of Parthiv Patel’s 7011 runs.
Who's that IPL player?He was selected for the three-match Test series against South Africa in Dec 2021 as a replacement for the then-injured Rohit Sharma and was also part of the squad for the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka in Feb 2022. This was the closest the 35-year-old came to playing for India. The selectors were impressed with his 96-run knock in the first innings against a South Africa ‘A’ side in Bloemfontein.
Former Gujarat Ranji coach Hitesh Majmudar, who was with the squad when Panchal made his debut, told TOI, “He was unfortunate to not play for India. He did remarkably well when Gujarat won the Ranji Trophy in 2016-17, and also in the domestic T20 competition in 2013-14. He was the backbone of Gujarat batting.”
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