Year Ender 2024: An important bowler also announced his retirement..!?
 Many cricketers has retired in 2024. The most important of these is New Zealander Tim Southee. tim southee played his last series against england this year and retired to the tears of the fans. In this situation, how did tim southee start his cricket career? Let's see what his achievements are now. tim southee was on the rugby team and the cricket team during his school days. At one point, he said goodbye to rugby because he became seriously interested in cricket. In 2007, when the indian Youth team toured new zealand, he participated in 3 Test matches. In this, he recorded his arrival by taking 20 wickets. Following this, tim southee made his debut in the 2008 international t20 match against England.
After playing two matches in international cricket, he again participated in the Under-19 world cup held in Malaysia. In the first match against Zimbabwe, he took five wickets for only 11 runs. After taking a total of 17 wickets in this series, Southee won the Man of the Series award. Following this, Southee made his debut in the Test match against england the next month. Southee took five wickets for only 55 runs while bowling. In this Test match, england set a target of 553 runs for new zealand to win in the last innings. At that time, when new zealand was struggling at 329 for the loss of eight wickets, Tim Southee, who came on the field, scored a half-century in 29 balls. Tim Southee, who stood on the field till the end, scored 77 runs in 40 balls. This included nine sixes and four boundaries. Following this, Southee formed an alliance with Trent Boult in Test cricket and started hunting the wickets of the opponent's batsman.  Tim Southee took 18 wickets in the 2011 world cup cricket tournament held in India. In that series, Southee's bowling average was 17. In the same 2011, tim southee played for CSK in the IPL series.
 He took four wickets in 5 matches. At a time when foreign fast bowlers were struggling to take wickets in Asian cricket, tim southee took seven wickets for 64 runs in an innings against Bangladesh. Following this, he took eight wickets for 120 runs in a Test match against sri lanka and helped new zealand win. Following this, new zealand won the Test series against the west indies in 2014 and tasted victory against big teams after 12 years. Tim Southee's role in this was very important. Southee took 11 wickets in this series. In the 2015 world cup match against england, tim southee showed his fiery fast bowling and took seven wickets for only 33 runs. With this, this is the best bowling performance by new zealand players in ODI cricket. Wisden cricket Magazine declared this bowling performance by tim southee as the best bowling performance in the last ten years of ODI cricket. Whenever Williamson, the captain of the new zealand team, gets injured, the cricket board of that country makes Team Southee the captain. Unlike the players in India, tim southee did not fight for the captaincy, but whenever he got the opportunity, he led it well. At one point, he suffered from injury and avoided participating in ODI and t20 matches in large numbers. However, tim southee also participated in t20 ODIs whenever he got the opportunity. In the last 2022, he set a record by taking a hat-trick of wickets in the t20 match against the indian team. Southee took over as the full-time Test captain in december 2022 after Williamson stepped down as New Zealand's Test captain. In this context, new zealand recently suffered a defeat in the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka. Following this, tim southee resigned from his position. Southee has played 16 Test matches for new zealand and has taken 389 wickets. Southee has played 161 ODIs and taken 221 wickets and 164 wickets in 126 T20Is.
Southee has played 161 ODIs and taken 221 wickets and 126 T20Is, taking 164 wickets. He is the third New Zealander to take 300 wickets in Test cricket, the first new zealand bowler to take 700 wickets in international cricket, the highest strike rate among all players to score 2000 runs in international Test cricket, and the fourth-highest number of sixes in Test cricket. Southee's retirement leaves a huge void in new zealand cricket.