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[ad_1] Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi for their 2023 Vitality Blast campaign. Afridi will join Colin Munro as one of the club's two T20 overseas players. Last season, Nottinghamshire missed out on qualification for the knockout stages of the Blast for the first time since 2015, and head coach, Peter Moores, hailed Afridi as a "box-office player" who could help reinvigorate the club, T20 champions in 2017 and 2020. BREAKING | ?? speedster @iShaheenAfridi signs for the 2023 @VitalityBlast . Full details ▶️ https://t.co/EptegVwJ2q #TheEagleHasLanded pic.twitter.com/0O8OtRynQP — Nottinghamshire CCC (@TrentBridge) March 30, 2023 "In Shaheen, we've got a world class player - which is really exciting - and a player with a point of difference with the ball, which is crucial when we are looking to recruit," Moores said. "We are building from a strong platform, with a lot of very talented lads hungry to play T

[ad_1] Australia T20 captain Aaron Finch announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday, drawing a line under a career that yielded more than 8,000 runs across all formats. A hard-hitting opening batsman and limited overs specialist, the 36-year-old retired from the ODI team in September and took time over the home summer to decide on his T20 future after Australia's World Cup title defence ended before the semi-finals. He had an excellent tournament in the domestic Big Bash League, smashing 428 runs at an average of 38.9 to help guide the Melbourne Renegades into their first finals series in three years. However, that was not enough to convince Finch to play on for Australia. "To be able to represent Australia for 12 years and play with and against some of the greatest players of all time has been an incredible honour," Finch said in a statement. He finishes with 5,406 ODI runs at an average of 38.89 and 3,120 runs in T20s at an average of 34