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The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Zimbabwe on Thursday after the country’s cricket board, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), was not able to hold out government's interference with the board's administration.

This is for the first time that a Full team has been suspended from participating in any form of cricket.

“We do not take the decision to suspend a Member lightly, however, we must maintain our game unfastened from political interference,” said ICC chairman Shashank Manohar. “What has befallen in Zimbabwe is a severe breach of the ICC Constitution and we cannot allow it to keep unchecked. The ICC wishes cricket to continue in Zimbabwe according to the ICC Constitution.” 

After the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision, cricketer Sikandar Raza said that it was now not how he wanted to say good-bye to cricket.

Raza posted on Twitter: "How one decision has made a team, strangers, How one decision has made so many people unemployed, How one decision affects so many families, How one decision has ended so many careers, Certainly not how I wanted to say goodbye to international cricket. @ICC"

ICC has suspended various Associate Members in the past, Sri Lanka was on the verge of suspension in 2015 due to government interference and Nepal is still under suspension. However, Nepal's countrywide teams have been allowed to continue taking part in ICC events at some point of suspension, similarly even America in the course of their latest suspension and expulsion duration from June 2015 thru January 2019 took part in ICC occasions.

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Yuvraj Singh announced his retirement from cricket on Monday in Mumbai. The left-handed batsman said goodbye to international cricket with an aggregate of 11,778 runs. Yuvraj scored 8701 runs in ODIs, 1900 runs in Tests and 1177 runs in T20Is respectively.

Yuvraj Singh is, undoubtedly, one of India’s biggest match-winners. Yuvraj scored 5453 runs at an average of 42.93, scoring 11 hundreds and bagging the Player-of-the-Match award 18 times. For many years, he remained the pillar of India’s middle order. From 284 matches in which he batted either at No. 4, 5 or 6, Yuvraj scored a rollicking 8254 runs with 13 centuries. But beating all those accolades, perhaps Yuvraj’s biggest contribution to Indian cricket remains winning the World Cup in 2011 at home, where battling an illness, he scored 362 runs from eight innings. 

Yuvraj while announcing his retirement.

"After 25 years, in and around 22 yards, and after almost 17 years of cricket on and off, I have decided to move on," Yuvraj said. "I am so lucky to play 400-plus games for India. I would never have imagined this that I started my career as a cricketer. It was a love-hate relationship with the sport, in retrospect. I don't think I hated the game, because the love I have for it today, which will remain a constant till the end of my life. I can't really express in words what that feeling is,"

Harbhajan said on asking Yuvraj’s retirement

“We wouldn’t have won the 2011 World Cup without Yuvraj. Wining two World Cups (including WorldT20 in 2007) has been his biggest present to India. Whenever I meet him, I always thank him for getting us those moments, medals which wouldn’t have been possible without him,”

Yuvraj Singh debuted for India during ICC Champions Trophy in 2000 against Kenya, last played for the national team in 2017 in an ODI against West Indies at North Sound.