Former Australia captain Ian Chappell has decided to put down his microphone after a celebrated commentary career spanning 45 years.
The 78-year-old commentator is widely admired for his incisive views on the game and his forthright manner of expressing them, told the Sydney Morning Herald that he had been contemplating the decision for a while, report ESPN cricinfo.
"I remember the day when I knew I'd had enough of playing cricket. I looked at the clock and it was five past 11 on a day of play and I thought, 'S**t, if you're clock-watching at that time, I have to go'. So when it comes to commentary, I've been thinking about it. I had a minor stroke a few years back and I got off lucky. But it just makes everything harder. And I just thought with all the travel and, you know, walking upstairs and things like that, it's all just going to get harder.
Ian Chappell entered the commentary box towards the end of a playing career of 75 Test matches - 30 of them as captain - and became part of a team of distinctive voices that backgrounded Channel Nine's broadcasts of Australian cricket for more than three decades.
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