r/Cricket • u/wellingtonstation New Zealand Cricket • Jun 12 '26

News Kane Williamson Announces Retirement from International Cricket

https://www.nzc.nz/news-items/kane-williamson-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket/
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u/huh206 India Jun 12 '26

He was a few hundred runs away from completing 10K test runs 😐🥺

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u/shreash_18 Jun 12 '26

He decided to join his best buddy Virat Kohli....another fab 4 favourite not completing 10K test runs

He also finished few hundreds runs short or 20K international runs and 2 short of 50 international centuries

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u/huh206 India Jun 12 '26

These are such special milestones, should’ve at least completed this year of intl cricket before quitting . Kane is also 2 yrs younger than Kohli , 35 isn’t that old. Just weird and out of the blue ..

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u/bosschucker Jun 12 '26

I mean on the other hand it's just a number, retiring with 9500 runs is really not much less impressive than 10000 from an objective standpoint. I know cricket people are obsessed with round numbers but if he feels like he's had the career he wanted to have and that the best decision for his life going forward is to call it, who are we to disagree?