Indian pacer Ashish Nehra's announcement of his retirement from cricket has sent shockwaves across the nation and left a series of broken hearts.  The 38-year-old cricketer is included in the Indian squad for the T20 series against New Zealand in November, which is set to be his swansong series.

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His decision has triggered a lot of emotions and people are taking to Twitter to express their dismay.

Ashish Nehra will retire on November 1st on his home ground. Thank you Nehra Ji for everything specially the 6/23 in 2003 World Cup

— Abhishek ð®ð³ #408 (@ImAbhishek7_) October 11, 2017

As expected, Ashish Nehra will bid international cricket goodbye at his home ground Ferozeshah Kotla on November 1 with a T20 against NZ.

— G. S. Vivek (@GSV1980) October 11, 2017

There were also some puns that floated around.

Ashish Nehra retires from International cricket.

End of Anehra!#NehraJi #nehra

— Naresh Gaur (@nareshgaur11) October 12, 2017

Ashish Nehra will retire after the NZ series. Post-retirement, Ashish will write his autobiography titled "My experiments with tooth".

— Bollywood Gandu (@BollywoodGandu) October 11, 2017

Then there were the goodbyes

Always found Ashish Nehra's career fascinating.
Whenever you thought he was done - he muscled on.
Now, he's finally done - you wonder why.

— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) October 12, 2017

Ashish Nehra retires from International cricket.

End of Anehra!#NehraJi #nehra

— Naresh Gaur (@nareshgaur11) October 12, 2017

It's going to be a bittersweet moment for Nehra and his fans as he will be retiring in his home ground of Delhi.  It's going to be an end of a(Nehra), after all.