Former England all-rounder Moeen Ali has announced his decision to retire from English cricket at the end of 2025; However, he has reportedly taken back his retirement and signed a domestic contract with Yorkshire in the T20 Blast.
Cricketers have now taken the opportunity to play in franchise cricket more often by announcing their retirement from international cricket. Many cricketers have announced premature retirement to keep themselves available for all franchise cricket leagues. Such players include Nicholas Pooran and Quinton de Kock.
However, a more recent trend has marked players reversing their retirement to return to international cricket, as QDK recently did for South Africa. Moeen Ali had earlier reversed international retirement to return to English domestic cricket.
Moeen Ali signs new contract with Yorkshire; retired from English cricket
Another year and another retirement reversal. However, the 38-year-old English cricketer is yet to turn to international cricket. This time he has announced his return to England’s domestic cricket.
Last year, in 2025, Moeen Ali had announced that he would not play professional cricket in England. Instead, Moeen was seen playing the shortest format of the game in several franchise tournaments around the world, including the CPL, ILT20 and BPL.
However, a recent report from ESPNcricinfo revealed that Moeen has now signed a deal to play for Yorkshire in this year’s T20 Blast. This deal is a one-year deal with extension options available for another year.
JUST IN: Moeen Ali has signed with Yorkshire to play in this year’s T20 Blast, reversing his decision to leave English cricket at the end of the 2025 season.
The former England all-rounder has agreed to a one-year deal, with an option to extend until 2027 pic.twitter.com/CsWRchXw3d
– ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) 28 January 2026
Moeen Ali’s brilliant performance in ILT20 2025
The former English all-rounder was once called the master of T20 cricket in the country. He has also represented England in T20Is, with an impressive career that spanned 92 games. He scored 1229 runs in those matches and also took 51 wickets with the ball.
Having played franchise cricket mainly in India and England, Moeen Ali has scored 3178 runs in 126 career matches in the Vitality Blast T20 and 1167 runs in 73 matches in the IPL. While he is just one wicket short of 100 T20 Blast wickets, he has taken 41 wickets in the IPL.
After playing for Sharjah Warriors, Moeen Ali was yet to do wonders with the bat, which he finally did for the Gulf Giants. He scored 251 runs in 9 matches in the season and took 2 wickets. His best innings came in the last game against Abu Dhabi Knight Riders.
Moeen took a break from IPL to play in PSL for the 2026 season
After a good career in the IPL during his international playing days, the former English all-rounder is slowly losing his priority in the IPL. After leaving the CSK camp, Moeen has not been able to perform at his best.
He was signed by Kolkata Knight Riders and played a few matches in the last season. However, despite trying at several positions, the great Englishman failed to perform well with the bat and was beaten when he came to bowl.
He was then released by the Knight Riders ahead of the IPL 2025 mini-auction. They then decided to withdraw from the IPL auction pool and switch to the PSL for the upcoming season. He has scored 138 runs in 9 matches in the 2020-21 PSL season.
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