Glamorgan wicketkeeper Mark Wallace has announced his retirement from cricket with immediate effect.
Wallace, 35, spent 18 years in the first team and captained them from 2013 to 2015, playing 264 first class games.He became the first wicketkeeper for the Welsh county to amass more than 1,000 first-class runs in a season."I've been extremely fortunate to have been able to represent the club for so long and I walk away with a heavy heart," Wallace said.The Abergavenny product made his Glamorgan debut in 1999 against Somerset at Taunton, and at 17 years and 287 days, became the club's youngest wicketkeeper in a county championship match.During his county career, Wallace helped Glamorgan to the National League one-day title in 2004.In 2012, Wallace passed Eifion Jones' club record for the highest aggregate of runs by a specialist wicketkeeper and passed the landmark of 10,000 first-class cricket runs three years later.Wallace, who also represented England Under-19s, completed a sequence of 230 consecutive championship appearances for the Welsh county over a 14-year period between 2001 and 2015.
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