Spinner Mitchell Santner has been named New Zealand’s white-ball captain.
The 32-year-old replaces Kane Williamson, who stood down following the T20 World Cup earlier this 12 months.
Santner commonly stood in for Williamson and has already led the Black Caps in 24 T20s and 4 one-day internationals.
His first task as everlasting skipper can be a T20 collection in opposition to Sri Lanka which begins on 28 December.
“It is clearly an enormous honour and a privilege to be requested,” mentioned Santner, who has performed 213 white-ball matches for New Zealand.
“Once you’re a younger child the dream was all the time to play for New Zealand however to have the chance to formally lead my nation in two codecs is particular.”
Coach Gary Stead mentioned Santner’s appointment got here amid a want to enable Tom Latham, who has captained in all three codecs, to give attention to his present position as Check skipper.
“Mitch is a incredible crew man and leads by instance in all aspects of the sport,” mentioned Stead.
“He is an extremely calm and picked up character and he has an enormous quantity of respect within the altering room, which is able to serve him effectively.”
