India left-arm spinner Gouher Sultana has announced her retirement from all forms of the game. She played 50 ODIs and 37 T20Is after making her debut in 2008, and last represented India in April 2014. Thereafter, Sultana came back into the limelight a decade later when she featured in the 2024 and 2025 WPL seasons.

"To have represented India at the highest level - in World Cups, tours and battles that tested both skill and spirit - has been the greatest honour of my life," Sultana wrote in her retirement announcement on Instagram . "Every wicket taken, every dive in the field, every huddle with my teammates has shaped the cricketer and the person I am today."

Sultana finished with 66 ODI wickets at an average of 19.39, the third-best for any India bowler to have taken at least 50

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