Best remembered for being the tearaway quick, whose sharp bouncer left Stuart Broad's nose fractured at Old Trafford during India’s tour of England in 2014, Varun Aaron on Friday announced his retirement from “representative cricket”.
The Austrian won a major, the 2020 US Open. He also reached the final of three other Slams, won 17 ATP singles titles; achieved a career-high ATP Ranking of No. 3; and was ensconced in the Top 10 for the better part of six years.
He has played 103 Tests and 236 ODIs, bagging almost 700 wickets and has become an iconic figure in the international circuit.
He left his impoverished home as a teenager and stowed away on a ship bound for Manila. He made his professional debut as a junior flyweight in 1995, aged 16, fighting his way out of abject poverty to become one of the world’s highest-paid athletes
