Ramnaresh Sarwan, the former West Indies middle-order batsman, is set to announce his retirement from all forms of the game on Thursday (September 15). The 36-year old batsman played his last match for West Indies in June 2013, a Champions Trophy league game against India at Kennington Oval and has since fallen out of favour with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The Guyanese batsman will announce his retirement at the Stella Maris School, the place where his tryst with the game began when scoring two hundreds in an Under-12 competition. While some reports state that he will quit all formats of the game, while some others suggest he is only calling time on his international career.

In an international career that lasted 13 years, Sarwan featured in 87 Tests, 181 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 18 Twenty20 internationals, for the West Indies, ever since his Test debut against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in May 2000.

Sarwan finishes his career with a total of 11994 international runs, spread across all the three formats of the game. Having made his Test debut in 2000, Sarwan enjoyed a prolific 2001, making 782 runs at an impressive average of 43.44. His breakthrough season came in 2004 - when he scored over 1000 Test runs during the calendar year, including his first-ever double hundred, an unbeaten 261 against Bangladesh.