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The Indian Cricket Board recently dropped the captain and star batsman Suryakumar Yadav, who won the T20 World Cup 2026 title, from Team India. This decision was much discussed and the debate on it is still going on. But this is not the first time that this has happened, in fact many players had to lose their places despite strong performances. One such player has now left cricket and started his career in another sport. This player is former England fast bowler Liam Plunkett, who has started a new innings in baseball 7 years after his last match in international cricket.
Former England fast bowler Liam Plunkett has made his debut in baseball at the age of 41. Plunkett, who was one of the heroes of England’s title win in the World Cup 2019, started his career for an American minor league baseball team on June 26. In a match of the Pioneer Baseball League in Oakland, California, he took the field on behalf of the local team Oakland Ballers.
Plunkett had a good start in baseball, a game somewhat similar to cricket. He made his debut against the Yuba-Sutter Freebirds and pitched a ball and struck out one player. However, despite this his team lost the match to Oakland Bowlers 11-18. This was Plunkett’s first professional match in baseball. Although this is a league below baseball’s biggest tournament, Major League Baseball (MLB), it will be interesting to see how far Plunkett takes his career in this sport. Let us tell you that MLB is the third most valuable league in the world.
Liam Plunkett was active in international cricket for about 14 years. He started his journey with Test cricket in November 2005 and played his last international match in July 2019. His last match was the most special, which was the World Cup final against New Zealand at Lord’s on 14 July. In this title match, Plunkett took 3 important wickets with economical bowling in 10 overs and also made a valuable contribution of 10 runs with the bat at the last moment. He took 11 wickets in 7 matches in the entire World Cup. However, he was dropped from the team immediately after the final. Plunkett took 135 wickets in 89 ODI matches for England.
