Tim Southee Test Stats And Records: Legendary New Zealand Cricket Team fast bowler Tim Southee has announced his retirement from Test cricket. This marks the end of one of the greatest careers in red-ball cricket for the country.
Southee is currently playing in the third of three New Zealand vs England Test matches. Despite the series being played in the land of the Kiwis, the English won the first two Tests of this series, fairly convincingly so. However, the home side is currently running away with the third match.
At the end of Day Three, England is batting in the fourth inning and is 18/2, still needing 640 runs to win. In the two innings they batted, the BlackCaps scored 347 and 453 runs, respectively, while bowling the Three Lions out for 143 in their first inning.
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Coming back to the man of the hour, however, despite not having the best match of his career so far, this match is all about Southee. His retirement is not only the end of a great red-ball career but also one of the final pillars to fall of the great New Zealand side of the 2010s, of which Tim was a central figure.
The 36-year-old first came into the limelight in the 2008 U-19 World Cup. In the same year, he made his Test debut against England. In the 16 years since Southee has played 107 Test matches, which is the fourth most matches in the white jersey for the Pacific country.
Tim Southee Test Stats And Records
In those 107 matches, Tim Southee has taken 390 wickets with an average of 30.26. Despite Tests not being his best-performing format, Tim is the second-highest wicket-taker in the format for the Kiwis.
Not only that, but he was also a part of arguably the biggest day in New Zealand cricket history, the day the national team won their first major ICC trophy, the World Test Championship, in 2021.
As Tim Southee Test stats and records, In defeating India in the final, Southee played a massive role. As NZ took a small 32-run lead in the first inning, the veteran pacer disabled the top order by taking wickets of both the Indian openers, taking four wickets in the second inning.
But he has not only been valuable with the bat for New Zealand, as Southee is also known to be a dependable batter in the lower order who can add a few more runs with the tail. Surprisingly, he has the joint-fourth most sixes in Test cricket history for a batter, equal to Chris Gayle and more than the likes of Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Kevin Pietersen, and MS Dhoni.
In order to Tim Southee Test stats and records, Tim Southee also has the third-most runs in Test cricket for a player who has not scored a 100. With a high score of 77 and seven 50s under his belt, Southee has saved New Zealand with the bat on multiple occasions.
Tim Southee will bowl for New Zealand in Test cricket for the final time tomorrow. And as New Zealand will (likely) bowl out England and win this match, it will mark the end of the career of one of the most consistent pace bowlers of the 21st century.
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