{"id":239669,"date":"2025-11-02T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239669\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:47:07","slug":"kane-williamson-ex-new-zealand-captain-retires-from-t20-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239669\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Williamson: Ex-New Zealand captain retires from T20 international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There’s so much T20 talent there and the next period will be important to get cricket into these guys and get them ready for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

“Mitch [Santner] is a brilliant captain and leader – he has really come into his own with this team.<\/p>\n

“It’s now their time to push the Black Caps forward in this format and I’ll be supporting from afar.”<\/p>\n

The T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka starts in February.<\/p>\n

Williamson made his T20 debut for New Zealand in 2011 but had not featured since June 2024.<\/p>\n

Regarded by many as the best batter in New Zealand history, he is their leading Test run-scorer of all time and fourth on the ODI list.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Cricket chief executive Scott Weenink said Williamson had earned the right to decide how he finished his ODI and Test careers.<\/p>\n

“We’ve made it clear to Kane he has our full support as he reaches the back end of his illustrious career,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We would, of course, love to see him play for as long as possible, but there’s no doubt whenever he does decide to finally call time, he will go down as a legend of New Zealand cricket.”<\/p>\n

New Zealand completed a 3-0 clean sweep<\/a> in the one-day series against England on Saturday, having lost a rain-affected T20 series 1-0 beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“There’s so much T20 talent there and the next period will be important to get cricket into these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}