Thamsyn Newton retires from all forms of cricket
She was part of four Super Smash title wins with Wellington Blaze and two HBJ Shield titles - one each with Wellington and Canterbury
ESPNcricinfo staff
10-Aug-2025 • 5 hrs ago
Thamsyn Newton has won the Super Smash title four times with Wellington Blaze • Getty Images
New Zealand Women allrounder Thamsyn Newton has announced her retirement from all forms of cricket. She brought curtains to a 14-year career that included ten ODIs and 15 T20Is between 2015 and 2021, and was part of the New Zealand squads for the 2016 T20 World Cup and the 2017 ODI World Cup.
Newton was a top-order batter, known for her hard-hitting, and bowled medium pace. In just her third T20I, she ran through Sri Lanka's middle order with figures of 3 for 9 and in November 2016 against Pakistan, picked up her first five-for in ODIs. But it was in New Zealand's domestic circuit where Newton truly shone.
She began her domestic career with Wellington in 2011-12 before switching over to Canterbury from 2014 to 2018. She returned to Wellington again for a further five years before moving to Central Districts ahead of the 2023-24 season. She appeared in four Hallyburton Johnstone Shield, the domestic 50-over competition, finals - in 2015 and 2017 with Canterbury and in 2022 and 2023 with Wellington - winning it once with each team. She also won the Super Smash with Wellington four times and finished runners-up last year playing for Central Districts in a thrilling finale against her former team.
While Newton last played an ODI in 2017, she earned back her central contract with New Zealand in 2021 after a gap of three years. But she only played three more T20Is after that. She also played for Perth Scorchers in the WBBL 2017-18.
Newton is also a dual code star and played rugby in the Farah Palmer Cup, the domestic women's rugby union competition in New Zealand, for Wellington Pride and the Hawke's Bay Tui.