India, Nov. 7 -- Mohammed Shami, the India fast bowler, announced on Friday that he is retiring from Test cricket, ending a 13-year run in the format that began and closed on the same date. In a video message posted on Instagram from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, he said he had received his Test cap, number 279, on November 6 thirteen years ago and was putting it aside on November 6.

He finishes with 229 wickets from 64 Tests, taken across 122 innings at 27.71, with an economy rate of 3.30. His best figures in an innings were 6/56, and he took four wickets in an innings 12 times and five or more on six occasions.

Shami's debut came against the West Indies in 2013, when returns of 4/71 and 5/47 helped India to victory by an innings and 51 run...