蒂姆·索西 (Tim Southee) 将于本周末在塞登公园 (Seddon Park) 参加他为黑帽队效力的最后一场测试赛

索西将作为黑帽测试球员最后一次踏上塞登公园球场，结束他长达 16 年的职业生涯。

Black Caps captain Tom Latham has confirmed that Will Young will open the batting in place of Devon Conway for the third Test against England at Seddon Park.

黑帽队队长汤姆·莱瑟姆确认威尔·杨将代替德文·康威在塞登公园对阵英格兰队的第三次测试中首发击球。

Conway has stepped away from the team to await the birth of his first child.

康威已经离开球队，等待他的第一个孩子的出生。

Latham said they wouldn’t be revealing their starting 11 for the Test until the coin toss tomorrow morning.

莱瑟姆表示，在明天早上掷硬币之前，他们不会透露测试的首发 11 人。

"We'll have a look at the wicket in the morning and make a decision from there,” Latham said.

“我们将在早上查看检票口并从那里做出决定，”莱瑟姆说。

"We know we haven’t played to our potential over the last couple of games but hopefully we can put a good showing on for the fans and we really appreciate their support."

“我们知道在过去的几场比赛中我们没有发挥出我们的潜力，但希望我们能为球迷们带来一场精彩的比赛，我们非常感谢他们的支持。”

Despite the squad not yet being announced, it would be surprising if Tim Southee was left out of the team for his final Test match.

尽管阵容尚未公布，但如果蒂姆·索西（Tim Southee）在最后一场测试赛中被排除在队伍之外，那将是令人惊讶的。

Southee is set to step onto his home ground of Seddon Park for the last time as a Black Cap Test player to bring an end his 16-year long career.

索西将作为黑帽测试球员最后一次踏上塞登公园球场，结束他长达 16 年的职业生涯。

"It’s a great occasion for Tim, it’s his last Test match and we’ll celebrate that throughout and post the Test match," Latham said.

“这对蒂姆来说是一个伟大的时刻，这是他的最后一场测试赛，我们将在整个测试赛后庆祝这一点，”莱瑟姆说。

"He (Southee) is going to be remembered as one of the greats of our game, the numbers back things up around that, but also internally the leader he is and the legacy he will leave from a bowling point of view."

“他（索西）将作为我们运动中最伟大的球员之一而被人们铭记，数字证明了这一点，而且他也是内部的领导者，从保龄球的角度来看他将留下遗产。”

Tim Southee is set to play his last Test match for the Black Caps at Seddon Park this weekend. (1News)

蒂姆·索西（Tim Southee）将于本周末在塞登公园（Seddon Park）参加他为黑帽队举行的最后一场测试赛。 (1条新闻)

Southee passed on his role as Black Caps skipper to Tom Latham earlier this year following a disappointing Test series in Sri Lanka.

今年早些时候，在斯里兰卡的一系列测试令人失望后，索西将黑帽队队长一职交给了汤姆·莱瑟姆(Tom Latham)。

"I've had the privilege of playing pretty much all my Test matches with Tim. To see how he goes about things day in and day out, the longevity he's had as a seam bowler in New Zealand, to play the amount of Test matches that he has and to be pretty close to 400 Test wickets is no mean feat."

“我有幸和蒂姆一起参加了几乎所有的测试赛。看看他日复一日地做事，他在新西兰作为一名接缝投球手的寿命有多长，参加了多少测试赛他拥有并接近 400 个测试三柱门，这绝非易事。”

Southee ends his Test career as New Zealand’s all-time leading international wicket-taker (currently 774) across all formats of the game which includes 389 wickets in Test cricket.

Southee 结束了他的测试生涯，成为新西兰历史上在所有比赛形式中领先的国际三柱门接收者（目前为 774 个），其中包括在测试板球比赛中的 389 个三柱门。

"We'll certainly miss him, the dressing room will miss him but he's going to leave behind a long legacy I'm sure that will live on for a long time."

“我们肯定会想念他，更衣室也会想念他，但他将留下一份长期的遗产，我相信这将持续很长时间。”

He is also the only player in the world to claim more than 300 Test wickets, 200 ODI wickets and 100 T20I wickets.

他也是世界上唯一一位拥有超过 300 个测试三柱门、200 个 ODI 三柱门和 100 个 T20I 三柱门的球员。

Southee debuted for the Black Caps in 2008, taking five wickets against England and hitting 77 off 40 balls in Napier.

索西于 2008 年首次代表黑帽队出场，在对阵英格兰队的比赛中拿下 5 个三柱门，在内皮尔比赛中 40 个球打出 77 个球。

A man who has fond memories of Southee’s career is Seddon Park groundsman Karl Johnson, who has maintained the Hamilton ground for the last 20 years.

塞登公园场地管理员卡尔·约翰逊（Karl Johnson）对索西的职业生涯有着美好的回忆，他在过去 20 年里一直维护着汉密尔顿的场地。

“I did see him when he first came to Northern Districts. He was an 18-year-old from Whangārei who was talked about for how good he was,” Johnson said.

“他第一次来北区的时候，我确实见过他。他是一名来自旺加雷的 18 岁年轻人，人们都在谈论他的出色表现。”约翰逊说道。

“He's a great mate, a good guy and he's done a lot for New Zealand Cricket so it should be a pretty special Test match.”

“他是一个很棒的伙伴，一个好人，他为新西兰板球做出了很多贡献，所以这应该是一场非常特别的测试赛。”

The Seddon Park Pavilion end has been renamed the “Tim Southee End” for his final Test match. (1News)

塞登公园球场端已更名为“蒂姆·索西端”，以进行他的最后一场测试赛。 (1条新闻)

New Zealand Cricket have marked the occasion by renaming the Seddon Park Pavilion end the “Tim Southee End” for the Test match to acknowledge the 36-year-old’s contribution to the sport.

新西兰板球协会为纪念这一时刻，将测试赛的塞登公园球场端重新命名为“蒂姆·索西端”，以表彰这位 36 岁的板球运动员对这项运动的贡献。

Following his final Test match, Southee will make a decision on whether he wants to make himself available for the Black Caps white-ball series against Sri Lanka at the end of the month.

在最后一场测试赛之后，索西将决定是否参加本月底对阵斯里兰卡的黑帽白球系列赛。

The Black Caps are aiming to avoid a series clean sweep against England, who could become just the third visiting side to win a three-match series 3-0 in New Zealand.

黑帽队的目标是避免系列赛横扫英格兰队，英格兰队可能成为第三支在新西兰以 3-0 赢得三场系列赛的客队。