Overview
- Suzie Bates confirmed she will end her 20-year New Zealand career after the Women’s T20 World Cup in England, framing it as a final push to win another title.
- New Zealand Cricket says she will be included in the 15-player squad at an event at Otago Girls’ High School in Dunedin next week, then travel in early May for ODI and T20I tune-ups in England.
- Bates has 362 caps across ODIs and T20Is and holds the women’s T20I runs record with 4,717, along with the top catches tallies in women’s ODIs and T20Is.
- She captained the White Ferns in 151 matches and earned major honors, including ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year (2013, 2016) and Wisden’s Leading Woman Cricketer (2015).
- New Zealand enters as defending T20 world champion after its 2024 win, and Bates returns from a quadriceps injury aiming to close a multi-sport career that also included the 2008 Olympic basketball team.