LAHORE: Pakistan  former captain and senior batsman Azhar Ali announced his retirement from playing limited-overs  on an international level on Thursday while he would be available  to play on domestic level.

Cricketer Azhar Ali retired from ODI cricket Media Dressing

 While addressing the press conference at Gaddafi Stadium he stated as “ this is not a impulsive decision. I have thought a lot about it and  due to personal matters  I  have decided to  retire from ODI cricket”.

 While answering to media  he told that  a lot  of people were not satisfied with my captaincy and now he will have focus just on test cricket and will try to give it on his maximum  efforts. He praised Sarfraz Ahmed  Captaincy that Pakistan  has won  number of matches  in  a sequence  in T20 match series and recent  with Australia  Pakistan cricket team played magnificent  in batting and bowling.

Azhar Ali cricket  started his debut in 2011 against Ireland, and  became the captain of Pakistan cricket team in 2015 in 50 over matches, he played total 53 matches with total score of 1845 runs at an average of 36.9  including and 12 half-centuries.

Ali last played an ODI match on January 13, 2018 against New Zealand.