4 Cricketers who got a fairytale farewell

#4 Nasser Hussain vs New Zealand, Lord's, 2004

One of the few cricketers to score a century in their last Test innings

After four years of tenacious leadership and the surge of young and dynamic cricketers in the dressing room, England's elder statesman was increasingly looking out of place in the summer of 2004.

Matters came to a head at Lord's when he managed to deny debutant Andrew Strauss his maiden hundred with a catastrophic yet familiar run-out in England's pursuit of 282 against the Kiwis.

Hussain, in a typically bloodyminded and dodged fashion, took the matters in his own hands and knuckled down to seal the deal for his country with a blazing cover drive first to reach his hundred and an encore of the very next ball to hit the winning runs and bow out of Test cricket in scintillating fashion.