Middlesex seam bowler Tim Murtagh will retire from enjoying professionally on the finish of the season.
The 42-year-old right-armer performed three Exams, 58 One-Day Internationals and 14 T20 Internationals for Eire between 2012 and 2019.
Murtagh, who joined Middlesex from Surrey in 2007, has taken 951 wickets in 263 first-class appearances.
“It has been a pleasure to have been fortunate sufficient to reside out my childhood goals for such a very long time,” he stated.
Murtagh performed a number one function in Middlesex’s County Championship title success of 2016, taking 43 wickets at a median of 28.53.
He additionally helped the north London membership carry the T20 Cup in 2008, and was part of the perimeters which received promotion from Division Two in 2011 and 2022.
Murtagh has had a player-coach function at Lord’s this season, that includes in 5 of their 12 Division One matches, and the membership will provide him a full-time teaching function when he retires.
“It has been an unimaginable honour to have performed for this nice membership since 2007 and I’m grateful to everybody who made me really feel instantaneously at dwelling right here,” he added.
“Transferring ahead I can not wait to assist the following technology of Middlesex cricketers reside out their very own goals as I transfer on to the teaching employees and the following section of my life.”
Murtagh performed in Eire’s first-ever Take a look at match, a five-wicket defeat by Pakistan in Might 2018, and took 5-13 towards England at Lord’s in his remaining Take a look at outing because the vacationers bowled out the hosts for 85 earlier than lunch in July 2019.
His 13 Take a look at wickets got here at a median of 16.38.
Murtagh is within the squad for Middlesex’s dwelling Championship match towards Warwickshire, which begins on Tuesday.
If chosen, it is going to be his 91st and remaining first-class look at Lord’s as Middlesex end their red-ball marketing campaign away at Nottinghamshire (26-29 September).