All-rounder An­dre Rus­sell will make his fi­nal in­ter­na­tion­al ap­pear­ance for the West In­dies on home soil when the team faces Aus­tralia in a T20 se­ries at Sabi­na Park on Ju­ly 20 and 22.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) con­firmed that the two match­es will mark the farewell of Rus­sell, a two-time T20 World Cup win­ner and vet­er­an of more than 140 in­ter­na­tion­al match­es across for­mats over a 15-year ca­reer.

Rus­sell, a mem­ber of the 16-man squad se­lect­ed for the se­ries, was cho­sen based on per­for­mance. CWI in­di­cat­ed that the squad is part of the prepa­ra­tion process for the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Ti­tle­hold­er Rus­sell said rep­re­sent­ing the West In­dies was among the ma­jor ac­com­plish­ments in his ca­reer.

“To rep­re­sent the West In­dies has been one of the proud­est achieve­ments in my life. When I was a kid, I did not ex­pect to get to this lev­el,” said Rus­sell. “This in­spired me to be­come bet­ter be­cause I want­ed to leave a mark in the ma­roon colours and be­come an in­spi­ra­tion to oth­ers.”

Rus­sell high­light­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty to end his in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer in fa­mil­iar con­di­tions in Ja­maica.

“I love play­ing at home in front of my fam­i­ly and friends,” said Rus­sell. “I want to fin­ish my in­ter­na­tion­al ca­reer on a high while be­ing a role mod­el for the next gen­er­a­tion of crick­eters com­ing out of the Caribbean.”

CWI Head Coach Daren Sam­my de­scribed Rus­sell as a ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­al.

“An­dre has al­ways been the con­sum­mate pro­fes­sion­al and a fierce com­peti­tor,” said Sam­my. “Whether I was cap­tain­ing him or now coach­ing him, his hunger to per­form and win for West In­dies has nev­er wa­vered.”

Sam­my al­so ex­tend­ed sup­port to Rus­sell as he moves for­ward.

“I wish him all the best on his next chap­ter, and I hope he con­tin­ues to in­spire gen­er­a­tions to come.”

Rus­sell made his T20 In­ter­na­tion­al de­but in 2011 and was a key part of the West In­dies teams that won the T20 World Cups in 2012 and 2016.

The up­com­ing match­es at Sabi­na Park will give fans in Ja­maica and the wider Caribbean a fi­nal op­por­tu­ni­ty to wit­ness Rus­sell rep­re­sent­ing the re­gion­al side in the T20 for­mat.

CWI has not yet an­nounced any of­fi­cial cer­e­mo­ny mark­ing Rus­sell’s farewell, but the match­es are ex­pect­ed to draw at­ten­tion across the re­gion.