Veteran New Zealand fast bowler Lea Tahuhu on Sunday announced her retirement from Women\u2019s ODI cricket.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Tahuhu drew curtains on a 15-year career, finishing with 125 wickets from 103 matches, a record for the New Zealand Women\u2019s ODI team.<\/p>\n
She made her debut against Australia in June, 2011.<\/p>\n
Tahuhu went on to feature in four Women\u2019s ODI World Cups (2013, 2017, 2022 and 2025).<\/p>\n
Her match against England in last year\u2019s World Cup was her final ODI for New Zealand.<\/p>\n
In World Cups alone, Tahuhu picked up 36 wickets, a record for New Zealand, and the ninth best on the all-time charts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always been a privilege and honour to pull on the White Ferns shirt in ODI cricket,\u201d Tahuhu said in a statement issued by New Zealand Cricket.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get one game was an amazing feeling. To have been able to wear the shirt and represent my country and my family over 100 times in ODI cricket is something I never could have dreamt of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll treasure every moment and walk away from the ODI game incredibly proud of what I\u2019ve been able to achieve in the format.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tahuhu, however, will continue in the T20 format and desires to defend the T20 World Cup title for New Zealand in the upcoming edition of the event to be held in England and Wales.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning the T20 World Cup in 2024 was a huge achievement and I\u2019m really motivated to be over in England later this year to help this team defend our title,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran New Zealand fast bowler Lea Tahuhu on Sunday announced her retirement from Women\u2019s ODI cricket. The 35-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-528493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}