Warwickshire bowler Rushworth retires

Warwickshire bowler Chris Rushworth has announced his retirement from professional cricket at the age of 39.

Rushworth spent most of his career at Durham and after making his first-class debut in 2010 he went on to become the county's all-time leading wicket taker.

He spent the last three summers at Warwickshire, and ends his career with 676 first-class wickets in 176 matches.

Rushworth had agreed a one-year player-coach role with the Bears, but he only played two County Championship games in 2025 due to injury, and now he will now focus solely on developing young bowlers at Edgbaston.

"It's not quite how I imagined finishing my playing days, but life isn't a fairytale and my body has told me it's time," he said.

A right-arm fast medium seamer, Rushworth was a key member of the Durham bowling attack in 2013, taking 54 wickets as they won the Championship.

He went even better the following year as he finished as the leading wicket-taker in the competition with 83 scalps at 20.61 and was named the Professional Cricketers' Association Player of the Year in a season in which Rushworth helped the north east county win the One-Day Cup.

The Sunderland bowler went past Graham Onions' Durham record of 528 wickets in 2021, eventually finishing with 598 before his move to Warwickshire.

His match figures of 15-95 against Northamptonshire at Chester-le-Street in 2014 are also a Durham record.

He added: "I am immensely proud to have represented my home club for so long and I truly hope I did the badge justice."