“Having announced my retirement to the team a few days ago, I’m sitting here thinking back to what inspired me in the first place and that would be the Scotland versus Australia game at the 1999 World Cup,” McLeod stated in a press release launched by Cricket Scotland earlier within the week. “I remember watching that and thinking ‘that is what I want to do’ and it lit a fire inside me to go on and do everything I could to play for Scotland.
“So, to quick ahead to now as I step again having performed in 5 World Cups, I feel in case you’d instructed me method again then what I’d go on to attain with my nation, I would not have believed you.”
“Finishing after this World Cup in Australia has been powerful as a result of we did not handle to attain what we wished to attain, however I depart the group with an actual sense of hope that, with the best backing and the best alternatives, the present group can actually go far and might encourage many,” he said. “My profession with Scotland has been stuffed with some actual highs and some lows, I really feel extraordinarily lucky to have performed for my nation 229 occasions.
“It was something that I never took for granted and it was a huge honour and a privilege. I hope I have entertained a few people along the way and, ultimately, I feel like I am leaving the team in a better place than when I started this amazing journey.”
“For me personally, Calum leaves an ideal legacy behind him in not solely the runs he scored together with ten ODI a whole bunch, but additionally his need to place in performances within the earlier a part of his profession when he was a bowler and needed to transition right into a batter. He is an extremely proficient sportsman, a implausible fielder, an actual fighter and somebody who would entrance up when it was required. Those had been his traits, and he can maintain his head actually excessive as he has left Scottish cricket in a greater place.”