Kane Williamson created history, the first Kiwi batsman to do so

Former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has created history against England on Saturday. He completed nine thousand Test runs during the second innings at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. Williamson is the first New Zealand player to do so. He achieved this feat when he scored the 26th run in the third innings of the ongoing Christchurch Test against England. He became the eighth fastest player to achieve this feat in just 182 innings.

In terms of this record, Williamson is behind only Steve Smith among the Fab Four players.

In terms of this record, among the Fab Four players, Williamson is only behind Steve Smith, who managed to achieve this position in just 174 innings. In this way, Williamson has left behind Joe Root and Virat Kohli in terms of scoring the fastest 9000 runs, who had achieved this feat in 196 and 197 innings respectively.

Runs kept coming from Williamson’s bat.

The former New Zealand captain has shown remarkable consistency in his Test career, where he has averaged over 50 in Tests every year since 2017. Let us tell you here that till now no New Zealand batsman has been able to score eight thousand runs in the biggest format of cricket. Williamson’s current Test batting average is close to 55, which is higher than Root’s average of 50.81 and Kohli’s average of 48.13. Among active players with at least 5,000 Test runs, Williamson is behind only Smith, who averages 56.40.

Williamson was the top scorer of the first innings

Williamson was New Zealand’s top scorer in the first innings of the ongoing Test against England, where he scored 93 runs from 197 balls. His innings included ten fours. On the basis of his innings, the Kiwi team managed to score 348 runs. Williamson has now scored more than 1100 runs in 17 Test matches against England with four centuries and five fifties.