{"id":547220,"date":"2026-04-23T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:50:08","slug":"suzie-bates-new-zealand-great-to-retire-from-internationals-after-2026-womens-t20-world-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547220\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzie Bates: New Zealand great to retire from internationals after 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand all-rounder Suzie Bates will retire from international cricket after this year’s Women’s T20 World Cup, ending an illustrious 20-year career on the world stage.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old will be part of the White Ferns’ 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup<\/a> taking place from 12 June to 5 July in England, where they will also play three ODIs and T20Is against the hosts next month. <\/p>\n

A right-handed opening batter, Bates is the all-time leading run-scorer in women’s Twenty20 internationals with 4,717 runs and fourth on the ODI charts, while she has also claimed 145 wickets and a record number of catches.<\/p>\n

“When I look back on the past 20-plus years, I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone,” said Bates, who also won the 2024 T20 World Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m immensely proud to have worn the fern so many times, and I’ve been filled with enormous purpose and joy in striving each day to be a better person, team-mate, cricketer, and athlete for this team.<\/p>\n

“I have one final mission: to head to the UK – a place that holds so many special memories for me – and win another World Cup.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand all-rounder Suzie Bates will retire from international cricket after this year’s Women’s T20 World Cup, ending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547220","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\/547220","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=547220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}