From Gautam Gambhir to Alastair Cook, top 10 cricketers who retired in 2018

While Cook scored a fine century to bid his Test career a goodbye, others like Pietersen formally announced their retirement despite being out of the national team for years

The year 2018 brought with it great moments of cricketing skills but it also brought the curtains down on the careers of some of the legends of the game. Some went out with a bang, others exited with a whimper, while some others, wrapped in obscurity for years, hit the headlines again when they made public their decision to hang their boots.

Below is the list of top 10 cricketers who won't ever don their national jersey and cross the rope to enter the field, as a player. The cricketers who retired in 2018.

1) Gautam Gambhir: Veteran Indian opener