: Former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from T20 Internationals to focus on his ODI and Test future.

Williamson, who drew down the curtain to his 93-game T20I career months before the next T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka in February, will miss the upcoming white-ball series against West Indies to focus on the three-Test series in December, New Zealand Cricket said.

Williamson, who made his T20I debut in 2011, captained New Zealand on 75 occasions – leading them to two ICC T20 World Cup semi-finals (2016 and 2022) and a final (2021).

The 35-year-old retires as New Zealand’s second-highest men’s T20I runs-scorer with 2575 runs at an average of 33, including 18 50s and a highest score of 95.

“It’s something that I’ve loved being a part of for a lon

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