Tim Southee has announced his retirement from Test cricket.
Team New Zealand has significantly boosted its hopes of reaching the final of the 2023-25 World Test Championship by winning all three matches of the three-match Test series against India. The New Zealand team now has to play a three-match Test series against England at home starting November 28, the first match of which will be played in Christchurch. Before the start of this series, former Kiwi team captain and veteran fast bowler Tim Southee surprised everyone by announcing his retirement from Test cricket. The last few years have not been very good for Saudi Arabia in Test cricket, after which they have now decided to retire from this longer format of cricket. At the same time, there is a world record in the name of Saudi Arabia which no other player has been able to beat in international cricket and it will be very difficult to beat it in the near future.
It is very difficult to beat this Saudi record.
It is not easy for any player to play in all three formats of international cricket, but Saudi Arabia has done very well. Tim Southee is the only player to have taken more than 300 wickets in Test, more than 200 in ODIs and more than 100 wickets in T20 International. Saudi Arabia is the only player to have achieved this feat in international cricket and it is very difficult to beat their world record. Saudi Arabia has taken 385 wickets in Tests so far and is second in terms of taking the most wickets for New Zealand after Richard Hadlee with 431 Test wickets. While Saudi Arabia has taken 221 wickets in ODIs and 164 wickets in T20 International so far.
He had been in the news for his performance in the Under 19 World Cup.
Tim Southee was part of the New Zealand team in the ICC Under-19 World Cup played in 2008, in which he took a total of 17 wickets in the tournament and was also awarded the Player of the Tournament title. Apart from this, Saudi Arabia has to play four ODI World Cups, seven T20 World Cups and two Champions Trophies in their career, besides playing the final match of a World Test Championship.
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