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New Zealand’s Kane Williamson bats throughout day three of the Second Test match within the sequence between New Zealand and Pakistan at Hagley Oval on Tuesday.
New Zealand’s Kane Williamson consolidated his title on the prime of ICC Test Rankings with a double century in opposition to Pakistan in second Test of the sequence in Wellington on Tuesday. The 30-year-old Kiwi skipper took 364 balls to attain a 238-run innings earlier than falling to Faheem Ashraf as hosts’ sixth wicket. By the time, the captain departed, New Zealand had been racing near the 600-run mark with Williamson forging a 369-run partnership with Henry Nicholls (157 off 291) for the fourth wicket.
Graceful. Greatness. Kane Williamson #NZvPAK #InsideEdge pic.twitter.com/kIDeSkJDOD— Spark Sport (@sparknzsport) January 5, 2021
His double-century additionally grew to become the primary such innings of the yr after the Black Caps star additionally grew to become the primary batsman to hit a century on this calendar yr.
During his innings, crammed with 28 boundaries, Williamson surpassed a number of milestones in Test cricket and a few of them are:
The Kiwi’s double ton achieved him the very best common amongst all Test batsmen within the final three years with a minimal reduce off of 1000 runs. In truth, Williamson has managed to place an enormous hole between him and the likes of Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.
65.74 Kane Williamson (and counting)
62.80 Babar Azam
58.81 Marnus Labuschagne
53.53 Henry Nicholls
52.62 Steve Smith
52.56 Virat Kohli
2. Only 12 gamers have reached the milestone of 7000 runs in Test in a lesser variety of innings than Williamson, who reached the landmark in 144 innings.
3. Williamson is just the fourth batsman to attain a century in three straight Test matches for the Kiwis, with the opposite three being Mark Burgess (1969-72), Ross Taylor (2013) and Tom Latham (2018-19).
