{"id":22260,"date":"2026-06-12T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22260"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:24:07","slug":"kane-williamson-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22260","title":{"rendered":"Kane Williamson Announces Retirement from International Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Zealand batting legend and former captain Kane Williamson has announced his immediate retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to a remarkable 16-year career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old was part of New Zealand\u2019s squad for the ongoing Test series against England but will not feature in the remaining two matches following his decision.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Williamson said he had been considering retirement for some time and recently felt that the moment was right to step away from international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>He added that representing New Zealand had always been a privilege and that he had given his best in every match.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson retires as New Zealand\u2019s highest run-scorer in Test cricket, having accumulated 9,515 runs in 110 Test matches.<\/p>\n<p>He also scored 7,256 runs in One-Day Internationals and 2,575 runs in Twenty20 Internationals during his distinguished career.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of his career was leading New Zealand to its first World Test Championship title in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As captain, Williamson guided New Zealand to multiple finals and semi-finals in major international tournaments and earned widespread respect for his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand head coach Rob Walter described Williamson as a great player, an outstanding leader and one of the finest ambassadors of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand batting legend and former captain Kane Williamson has announced his immediate retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to a remarkable 16-year career. The 35-year-old was part of New Zealand\u2019s squad for the ongoing Test series against England but will not feature in the remaining two matches following his decision. In his statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[4750,12406,1194,2080,4684,4810,68,1098,5237,312,12405,5347,5143,4148,6913],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-updates","tag-england","tag-former-captain","tag-international-cricket","tag-kane-williamson","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-odi-cricket","tag-retirement","tag-rob-walter","tag-sports-news","tag-t20-cricket","tag-test-cricket","tag-world-test-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22262,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions\/22262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}