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LONDON: Chris Rogers is resigning from global cricket after the current week's Ashes finale against England, the Australia opener reported on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old joins his skipper Michael Clarke in resigning from universal vocation after the fifth Test.
He said: "I have had an astonishing couple of years playing for Australia and delighted in it and been a piece of some really unique things - however everything reaches an end."
Britain wrapped up the Ashes with triumph in the fourth Test that put them 3-1 up in the five-match arrangement.
Tuesday's affirmation comes after Rogers had proposed it was his arrangement to make the Oval his worldwide swansong in what will be his 25th profession Test.
Rogers, who has more than 24,000 five star races to his name, made his Test introduction in 2008 yet did not win his second top until the begin of the 2013 Ashes - at 35 years old.
The decided left-hander has subsequent to scored five Test hundreds of years, most as of late in Australia's just triumph of this Ashes arrangement at Lord's.
Rogers endured a bleary eyed spell in the second Test at Lord's and was constrained off the field on 49 in Australia's second innings.
Medicinal tests uncovered the harm was identified with an equalization issue in the internal ear brought about when Rogers was hit on the head protector by a James Anderson bouncer amid his Test-best 173 in the first innings.
Regardless of harm questions he found himself able to play at the following Test at Edgbaston.
Disclosing his choice to go with Clarke into retirement, Rogers included: "You are never 100 for every penny beyond any doubt, yet I felt like this (Test at The Oval) was the last one.
"There's been a couple of things, especially the head issues of late, so I am truly upbeat to give it up.
"It's the ideal time for Australian cricket to roll out a couple of improvements and get a couple of new gentlemen, a couple of crisp appearances.
"It will be a testing time, especially for the new gentlemen - yet that is a piece of it." (AFP)
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