Amy Satterthwaite retires from New Zealand duty after losing central contract

The White Ferns' desire to trial new players comes in the wake of the failure to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals on home turf

New Zealand women's all-time one-day international appearance-maker Amy Satterthwaite has retired from international cricket.

The 35-year-old took the decision after failing to win a new central contract.

Across 15 years representing the White Ferns, Satterthwaite played 145 ODIs and 111 T20s.

She scored a total of 6,423 runs, with seven centuries, and took 76 wickets over both formats.

Of those runs, the 4,639 that came in 50-over cricket is the second-highest for Kiwi women behind Suzie Bates.

"It's come out of the blue and a bit of a shock," she told reporters. "I haven't been given any insight that this was the direction they wanted to go. 

"It was pretty devastating to hear...and it's been an emotional few days to digest it all and comes to term with it."

^{Satterthwaite finished with seven international centuries (Brendon Thorn/Getty Images)}

The decision to omit Satterthwaite from the fresh batch of contracts comes after New Zealand's failure to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals on home turf.

The immediate focus will now be on T20 cricket and introducing new players ahead of this summer's Commonwealth Games and the World Cup in early 2023.

The full list of the contracts awarded will be announced later this week.

NZC's general manager of high performance Bryan Stronach said: "Essentially, we're looking to the future and want to give some younger cricketers a chance to develop their skills surrounded by our high-performance systems. 

"We also considered the immediate playing programme and next pinnacle events - both heavily weighted towards T20I cricket."

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