Hampshire and ex-Zimbabwean international, Sean Ervine has called time on his career on Saturday (1 September) with immediate effect.

Having moved out of Zimbabwe in 2004 after representing the country in five Tests and 42 ODIs, the 35-year-old left-hander took a big decision to make a career at Hampshire, where he emerged as one of the most important cogs for the county side.

Ervine most recently signed a short-term deal with Derbyshire after representing Hampshire for 14 years.  Though 14 days later the all-rounder opted to hang up his boots, scoring only 51 runs in two appearances for Division Two side Derbyshire and going wicketless.

The right-armer announced the decision on Twitter, “Yesterday I made the biggest decision of my life. After 14 years playing county cricket I have decided to hang up my number 7 shirt.”

Meanwhile, Derbyshire captain Billy Godleman praised the all-rounder saying  “Sean shared with the group that he's had a long hard think about his career and he's decided to retire as of today from the game. Although he's only been with us for a couple of games, we've all played against him for many years. He's been a fantastic performer and, most importantly, a really good solid cricket man. One of the good guys in professional cricket.”

Ervine finished up his professional career with 11,390 First-Class runs and 280 wickets, 5716 runs and 206 wickets in List A cricket, apart from 3000-plus T20 runs and 68 wickets. He also scored 15,400 runs and took 373 wickets for Hampshire in all competitions.