Kane Williamson scored a brilliant 156 runs in the second innings of the 3rd test between New Zealand and England. He was dismissed in an unfortunate way for 44 runs in the first innings.
The Kiwi batter is one of the greats of modern-day cricket and has a stellar record in tests, especially in home conditions. Williamson has scored 5142 runs in 52 tests in New Zealand at an average of 66.77 including 20 hundreds and 21 fifties.
He has been one of the most consistent batters in test cricket in the last few years. The right-hand batter is the highest run-scorer of the ongoing Crowe-Thorpe Trophy between New Zealand and England.
Kane Williamson now averages 94.94 at Seddon Park in Hamilton. He has scored 5 consecutive test centuries at the venue and became the first player to achieve this milestone. His average at the Seddon Park is the highest for any batter at a venue with a minimum of 20 innings.
He surpasses Brian Lara’s average of 78 average in Antigua. Williamson (7 centuries at Hamilton) is behind Sangakkara (8 at Colombo), Jacques Kallis (9 at Cape Town), Donald Bradman (9 at MCG) and Mahela Jayawardene (11 at Colombo).
Kane Williamson became third-fastest player to score 33 test hundreds
Williamson’s latest test century was number 33 for the former Kiwi captain. He became the third-fastest player in test history to achieve this feat. He took 186 innings to score 33 test centuries and is only behind Australia’s Ricky Ponting (178 innings) and India’s Sachin Tendulkar (183 innings).
He had a fair shot at surpassing Sachin’s record as he reached 32 test hundreds in 181 innings ahead of this series. He got out for 93 in the first test and missed the opportunity by just 7 runs. New Zealand has posted a mammoth target of 658 runs for England in the ongoing 3rd test.
Kane Williamson joins an elite list of players after the second innings of the first test. Apart from Ponting, Tendulkar and Williamson the other players to score 33 test centuries in the fewest innings are Younis Khan (194 innings), Steve Smith (199 innings) and Kumar Sangakkara (199 innings).
