Langer joins SCG retirement list
**Cricinfo staff
** January 1, 2007
Justin Langer will retire after the Sydney Test to become the fourth senior Australia player to quit in less than a month. Langer will join Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath at the SCG farewell against England, which comes three matches after Damien Martyn’s surprise exit.
Langer considered ending his career after the tour of South Africa in April but, like Warne, he decided reclaiming the Ashes was his highest priority. “I had this burning ambition to beat England again. I just wonder how it can get better than that?” he said at the announcement at the SCG. “Everyone keeps saying ‘you’ll know when it’s time’. Well, at one o’clock two days ago I knew it was time - it just came to me.”
Langer said he was fortunate to have played in an incredible team. “It’s been a privilege with Shane and Glenn and Adam Gilchrist, the greatest wicketkeeper of all time, and Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting, who is the greatest batsman this country has produced after Bradman.”
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