Indian veteran spinning all-rounder Kedar Jadhav has announced his retirement from all forms of Cricket.

Kedar Jadhav
Kedar Jadhav followed the route of his idol MS Dhoni to retire from Cricket. He shared a slideshow of photos from his career with a Kishore Kumar song playing in the background.

"Thank you all For your love and support throughout my Career from 1500 hrs. Consider me as retired from all forms of cricket," Kedar Jadhav said in the post, confirming his retirement at 3 pm IST on Monday.

The right-hander middle-order batter, who was also a handy off-spinner, played 73 ODI's and nine T20Is for India and didn’t feature in Test Cricket. He made his ODI debut in November 2014 and T20I debut in July 2015 against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe respectively.

In the 50-over format, Jadhav scored 1389 runs across 52 innings at a staggering average of 42.09 and a jaw dropping strike rate of 101.60, including two centuries and six fifties. He also scalped 27 wickets at an economy of just more than 5. In the shortest version of the game, he scored only 122 runs at a dismal average of 20.33 and a strike rate of 123.23 including a fifty.

He featured four franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which sees - Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In IPL, Jadhav piled up 1208 runs in 81 innings at an average of 22.37 and a strike rate of 123.14. However, He never bowled a single delivery in the tournament.