Former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from T20 cricket.
New Zealand Cricket confirmed the news in a post on X, stating that Williamson will not participate in the upcoming white-ball series against the West Indies, and the star batter wants to focus on the Test series scheduled for December.
Williamson is the second-highest run-scorer for New Zealand in T20s. Since making his T20I debut in 2011, he represented the Black Caps in 93 matches, scoring 2,575 runs with 18 half-centuries.
Under his leadership, New Zealand reached the T20 World Cup semifinals twice and made it to the final once, marking one of the most successful eras in the country’s limited-overs history.