A day after Zimbabwe paceman Heath Streak hung his boots, compatriot Stuart Carlisle also announced retirement from cricket citing the infighting in the Zimbabwe Cricket Union as the reason.
"I have now officially retired from the game. I was fed up by what is happening and I just walked away. I'm tired of the politics. I'd rather be away from them," Carlisle said.
"Phil Simmons is dead right. We can't be having people who do not know which side of the bat is up at the helm of cricket. As for the players, it's not their fault," he said on the ICC website.
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Carlisle, 33, played the last of his 33 Tests against New Zealand in August, exactly a decade after his ODI and Test debuts against Pakistan. He scored 1615 runs at 26.91, including two hundreds, and also played 111 ODIs, making 2740 runs at 27.67.
The Zimbabwean said he would look back on his career with mainly happy memories.
"We definitely had some good times, as an individual and with the team. I'm proud to be the only Zimbabwean to score an ODI and Test hundred against Australia, and my three ODI hundreds have been very special."
Carlisle has gone into business, but says he feels he still has something to contribute to cricket. "There are senior guys like me around. We do not have to play. We can coach and do other stuff. A lot of guys want to do that. But we can't do that under the present set-up."
