Rachel Priest draws curtains on international career

The 35-year-old represented the White Ferns in 87 ODIs and 75 T20Is during her 13-year-long international career, scoring 2,567 runs, including two hundreds and 10 fifties. As a keeper, she finishes with 165 dismissals to her name.

Priest, who was handed a central contract last season after a two-year absence, was omitted in this year's contracted list of players, which was announced earlier this month. She was a part of the New Zealand squad at this year's 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, where, in four games, she scored 60 runs.

"Having been involved in the White Ferns environment for 13 years, most of it enjoyable, it is with much consideration that I have decided to retire from international cricket," Priest told the Cricket Tasmania website on Thursday, 18 June.

The decision was confirmed by the official White Ferns Instagram channel on 23 June.

Priest will now look to bring her experience to the fore while representing Tasmania in the Australia Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL). "I am really looking forward to the next chapter of my cricketing journey with Cricket Tasmania and the Tigers program and feel very fortunate to be given the opportunity," she had said.

"I’m in a position where I’ve played a fair amount of cricket at the age that I’m at, around the world, so I’m certainly hoping to add some of that experience and bring a bit of the mongrel that [coach Salliann Briggs] spoke to me about."

"Experience is massive but it’s also about trying to bring a positive belief into the team, where the girls can be whoever they want to be and back themselves when they perform," she added.