The legend who hit more sixes than Rohit-Dhoni announced his retirement, also holds the record for most wickets in T20.

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New Delhi. The Kiwi cricketer who has hit more sixes in Test cricket than Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni 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 taking the most wickets in T20 International. 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, then there is every possibility that he will take his number of wickets to 400. If this happens, he will become the second New Zealand bowler to have 400 wickets in his name. The first bowler to take 400 wickets in Test history was Richard Hadlee of New Zealand. Hadlee has taken 431 test wickets.

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

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