Bridgetown (Barbados), Jan 4 (Cricketnmore): Dashing former West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith will retire from domestic One-Day cricket for Barbados Pride, ahead of this months Regional Super50.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 33-year-old said he was no longer part of the selectors' plans and though he was hurt by not being able to finish his career at home in this year's 50-Over tournament, he had little choice but to call it quits, reports CMC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Barbados and Antigua are the hosts for the 2017 Super50 which runs from January 24 to February 18.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I basically have to make one big decision now for sure and that's I'm going to send in my resignation from 50-overs cricket for Barbados Pride, banking on the back of not being given the opportunity to finish my career at home," Smith told Line and Length Network on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I really wanted to, I've asked the selectors, I've spoken to them but obviously they had their different plans and I guess I didn't fit in.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"It was touching, it hurt me a lot because I really wanted -- even if it was one game I played in the 50-overs competition coming up -- I would have been happy," he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Smith has garnered 3,500 runs from 183 List A games at an average of 23 but had a disappointing outing in last year's Super50 when he managed just 116 runs from eight innings at an average of 14.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The right-handed Smith said he had been encouraged to end his Pride career at home and was hurt he could not bow out in this way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"A lot of the youngsters had asked me to finish in Barbados because I had told them I was not going to continue but they really, really wanted (me to finish at home)," said Smith, who quit first class cricket two years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I really wanted to finish at home seeing that I knew the tournament was going to play at home but life goes on, I can't really dwell on that."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"For the last two years or so, the team they have put together have been gelling well together and I love to see that camaraderie."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Smith's international career has been over for some time. He has not played a One-Day International (ODI) or T20 International for the West Indies in two years, and said he had accepted this reality even though nothing formal had been communicated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He made 1,560 runs in 105 ODIs and 582 runs in 33 T20s.<\/p>\r\n", "image": "https:\/\/img.cricketnmore.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15910314-1465383776828683-1897434405-n.jpg", "alt_img": "West Indies batsman", "alt_title": "Dwayne Smith", "image1": "", "video": "", "seo_title": "W.Indies' Smith calls time on his One-Day career with Pride", "seo_desc": "W.Indies' Smith calls time on his One-Day career with PrideBridgetown (Barbados), Jan 4 (Cricketnmore): Dashing former West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith will ret", "seo_keywords": "", "tag": "", "tagging": "", "status": "1", "img_rpt": "0", "google": "0", "standout": "0", "edapps": "0", "pulse": "0", "no_index": "0", "feed": "0", "fixture": "0", "slug": "w-indies-smith-calls-time-on-his-one-day-career-with-pride", "user_id": "0", "read_count": "0", "ians_date": "0000-00-00", "ians_time": "00:00:00", "server_time": "0000-00-00 00:00:00", "trash": "0", "view_count": "2048", "page_break": "0", "instant_articles": "0", "auto_link": "0", "created": "2017-01-04 15:09:00", "updated": "2017-01-04 15:09:00", "img_from": "", "img_source": "", "schedule_publish": "0000-00-00 00:00:00", "news_keywords": null, "livescore_text": null, "livescore_link": null, "btn_text": null, "resend_feed": "0", "google_feed": "0", "read_more": "0", "posted_by": "1", "jio_date": "2017-01-04 15:09:00", "scheduled": "0", "news_now": "1", "breaking_news": "0", "google_date": "2017-01-04 15:09:00", "featured": "0", "pred_match_id": null, "article_content_type": null, "link": "https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-news\/w-indies-smith-calls-time-on-his-one-day-career-with-pride-22616" }