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Rohit Sharma pens down an emotional note for Praveen Kumar as he announces retirement from international cricket

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Oct 22, 2018, at 04:41 pm

New Delhi, Oct 22 (IBNS): Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma on Monday penned down an emotional note for Parveen Kumar as he retired from international cricket recently.

Kumar, one of India's successful swing bowlers, announced his retirement from international cricket recently.

Rohit Sharma wrote on his Twitter page: " We almost started at the same time playing for the country, lots of fun, laugh and good cricket. I cannot forget his spell in CB series 2nd final, it was magical. To a brother, friend and a team mate have a good retirement buddy @praveenkumar."

We almost started at the same time playing for the country, lots of fun, laugh and good cricket. I cannot forget his spell in CB series 2nd final, it was magical. To a brother, friend and a team mate have a good retirement buddy @praveenkumar pic.twitter.com/3WzKvar4mQ
— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) October 22, 2018

Rohit is currently playing the ODI series for India against West Indies.

Announcing his decision, Praveen recently tweeted: "its been a great jounery. Its been a great life. With a heavy heart I want to say gud bye to my 1st love #CricketMeriJaan But the test cap no 268 nd ODI 170 will be mine till indian cricket era will continue... Thankyou @BCCI nd @UPCACricket for helping me to live up my dream.

its been a great jounery.
Its been a great life.
With a heavy heart I want to say gud bye to my 1st love #CricketMeriJaan
But the test cap no 268 nd ODI 170 will be mine till indian cricket era will continue... Thankyou @BCCI nd @UPCACricket for helping me to live up my dream.ðŸ‡®ðŸ‡³
— praveen kumar (@praveenkumar) October 20, 2018

Image: Rohit Sharma Twitter page

#PraveenKumar #PraveenKumarRetirement #RohitSharma

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