New Delhi. The Kiwi cricketer who has hit more sixes than Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni in Test cricket has announced his retirement. Tim Southee will be seen playing for the last time in the New Zealand-England series. Former New Zealand captain Tim Southee said that he will say goodbye to this format of cricket after the Hamilton Test. Tim Southee is the bowler who has taken the most 164 wickets in T20 International matches. He will continue to play in T20 and ODI formats.

35-year-old Tim Southee has played 103 Test matches so far. He has taken 385 wickets in these matches. If he plays all three Test matches against England, there is every possibility that he will reach the number of his wickets to 400. If this happens, he will become the second New Zealand bowler to have 400 wickets to his name. The first bowler to take 400 wickets in Test history was also New Zealand's Richard Hadlee. Hadlee has taken 431 Test wickets.

Tim Southee, who hit 15 more sixes than Dhoni,
is one of those greats of the world who are often underrated. The biggest example of this is that the player who has hit more sixes than Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni in Test cricket, scored more than 2000 runs, and also took 385 wickets, but was never counted among all-rounders. In this format, Rohit has hit 88 sixes and Dhoni has hit 78 sixes.

Tim Southee left the captaincy in the interest of the team.
Tim Southee will always be counted among those players who always put their team above themselves. This player was the captain of the Test team on the New Zealand tour a few months ago. Before coming to India, Tim Southee left the captaincy. One reason for this is that in India, often only two pacers play in Test matches. Many times Tim Southee is not able to make it to the top-2 pacers of his team. If he were the captain, he would have played every match and in such a situation the bowling combination of the team would have been disturbed. Thinking all this, Southee left the captaincy, which benefited his team.