Australia international Nicole Bolton bows out of professional cricket

The 33-year-old was a member of Australia's 2018 T20 World Cup-winning squad and also featured at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup

Australia international Nicole Bolton has retired from professional cricket.

The 33-year-old allrounder made her final career appearance in the 2022/23 Women's Big Bash final, taking one wicket and scoring 32 runs off 27 deliveries as her Sydney Sixers side lost to Adelaide Strikers by 10 runs.

Bolton made 55 appearances for Australia across all formats between 2014 and 2019, memorably beginning her international career with a century against England at the MCG and going on to score 1,993 runs. She also picked up two 50-over wickets.

^{Bolton was a member of Australia's 2018 Women's T20 World Cup-winning squad [Scott Barbour/Getty Images]}

Fifty of her caps came in ODIs and she was one of Australia's standout performers at the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, scoring 351 runs at 50.14, including one century and two half-centuries. She was also a member of Australia's victorious squad in the 2018 Women's T20 World Cup.

Over the course of her career, Bolton represented Western Australia, Victoria, Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers on Australia's domestic circuit as well as turning out for Otago and Kia Super League side Lancashire Thunder.

In total, she scored 91 first-class runs in three appearances, 5,459 runs in 156 List A appearances and 3,194 runs in 189 T20 appearances as well as taking 125 white-ball wickets.

With 1,876 runs to her name, she retires as the 15th-highest run-scorer in WBBL history.

Bolton described her career as an "unbelievable ride" and her final appearance "a special night" despite the result.

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