Retired out

Examples

In Twenty20 (T20) cricket, teams sometimes retire a batter for purely tactical reasons, such as to switch left- and right-handed batters, though this practice has been controversial and lambasted as unsporting. The first example at professional level was in a match between Bhutan and Maldives at the 2019 South Asian Games, when Sonam Tobgay of Bhutan retired out at the end of the 19th over. In the 2022 Indian Premier League, R Ashwin retired out while playing for Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants. In June 2022, during the 2022 T20 Blast match between the Birmingham Bears and the Notts Outlaws, Carlos Brathwaite (Birmingham Bears) and Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire Outlaws) both retired out for tactical reasons. During the group stage match between Namibia and England held at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, Namibia's Niko Davin became the first batter to be dismissed retired out in a T20 World Cup match. Davin who came in as the opening batsman for Namibia in the run chase, then announced himself that he was leaving the field during the 6th over of the Namibian innings while he was still batting with an unbeaten score of 18 runs off 16 balls. Namibia were left to chase a revised target of 126 runs in 10 overs in a rain-curtailed match, and as a result, he made himself retire out considering the circumstances Namibia were reeling at and to make a case for another batter to capitalize on the required run rate in order to score runs in a quick manner. Another example of being retired out is in the third match of Pakistan tour of West Indies in 2025, when Roston Chase was retired out, while West Indies required 41 from 18 balls; he had scored 15 off 12 balls. During the 2025 T20 Blast semi-final between Somerset and Lancashire Lightning, Lancashire batter George Balderson retired out in the 19th over of the Lancashire innings and was replaced at the crease by Tom Hartley in an attempt to help Lancashire reach their victory target of 183 because Lancashire Captain Keaton Jennings believed Hartley could score enough runs for Lancashire to win the match in the balls remaining. However this tactic would backfire and Hartley would be out first ball with Somerset winning the game by 23 runs after eventually bowling Lancashire out for 159.