Kane Williamson

At 33 years old, Kane Williamson has this physical status:

Domestic career

Williamson made his debut for the Northern Districts in 2007, at the age of 17, and he has continued with the New Zealand domestic team throughout his career. He scored his first T20 century on September 19, 2014, making 101* in 49 balls to lead Northern Districts to a landslide victory over Cape Cobras in Champions League Twenty2020 2014.

Williamson has signed for Gloucestershire to play in the 2011 English county season. He resigned for Yorkshire for the remainder of the season and then signed back for the 2014 season after his team won the County Championship on August 14th. He signed to return for the second half of the 2015 season, but Yorkshire eventually decided to extend Finch's contract in place of Williamson. He then signed a contract for a portion of the 2016 season and then returned for a portion of the 2018 season.

Williamson signed for Sunrisers Hyderabad, India's premier league team, in February 2015. (SRH). He appeared for the team in the 2016 season, winning the championship, and was back for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. In 2018, he captained the team after losing David Warner. Sunrisers Hyderabad finished runners-up, with 735 runs under Williamson's captaincy, and he was the season's top scorer. Kane took over the captaincy from David Warner in IPL 2021. However, SRH finished last in the tournament, winning only three matches out of a total of 23. He was retained by the franchise for the 2022 model as the captain, but the 2022 version of the franchise failed to perform, with a strike rate of 93.51 and scoring one half-century.

International career

Williamson was 17, when he led the New Zealand Under-19 team in the World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. New Zealand reached the semi-finals, where they lost to India's eventual champions. Williamson was named in the New Zealand Test squad for the second Test against Australia on March 24, 2010, but he did not participate in the match.

Williamson made his One-Day International debut against India on August 10, 2010. He was suspended for his ninth ball duck. Angelo Mathews bowled him for a second ball duck in his second match. On October 14, 2010, he scored his second ODI century against Bangladesh in Dhaka and became New Zealand's youngest centurion. Williamson was selected in the New Zealand Test squad for the tour of India that followed due to his success on the Bangladesh tour, where New Zealand suffered a 4–0 whitewash.

Williamson made his Test cricket debut against India at Ahmedabad on November 4, 2010. He scored 131 runs off 299 balls in his first innings, making him the eighth New Zealand player to score a century on Test debut.

Williamson scored 161 not out against West Indies in June 2014, his second century of the series, and he helped his team win a rare away Test series victory for his side. With 413 runs, he was the leading overall run scorer in the series, but he was denied a double century only by rain, prompting skipper Brendon McCullum to declare in the interest of obtaining a result in the match. In April 2014, he was arrested for a suspect bowling incident, but he was cleared in December 2014. He began bowling after leaving high school in order to get a quicker release and a turn on the ball. His latest action effectively reverts him to his high school days, with a more hands-on approach and less wrist and elbow deviations. As Brendon McCullum was restrained, he was also named captain ahead of the ODI and Twenty20 series against Pakistan.

Williamson scored 100* off 69 balls against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, the second fastest century by a New Zealander in a One-Day International tournament. Williamson himself is the most prolific top-order batsman for the national team after former captain Stephen Fleming, while Ross Taylor established one of the most effective top-order relations. His position as a fielder is mainly gully.

In a man-of-the-match effort, he began with 69 and 242* against Sri Lanka, with two catches in the field. Ross Taylor scored the 100th ODI century in New Zealand's history against Pakistan on February 3, 2015; he scored his 99th ODI century against Pakistan; he said he scored his 100th in the same match. In the first two months of the calendar year, he scored over 700 runs before the 2015 Cricket World Cup. He became the fifth-fastest batsman and fastest New Zealander to reach 3,000 runs on June 17, 2015, achieving it in 78 innings. Williamson and Taylor became the first pair of away batsmen to score 2nd centuries at WACA Ground in Perth on November 15, 2015.

Williamson set the record for the most Test runs scored in a calendar year by a New Zealander in December 2015 during his second Test against Sri Lanka. He finished 2015 with 2692 runs, the highest number among all forms of international cricket for the year and the third highest number in a single year.

By NZC for the 2014-15 season, he was named T20 Player of the Year.

After Brendon McCullum's retirement, Williamson assumed the captainship of New Zealand in all forms of cricket, starting with the World T20I cup in India in March 2016. By Cricinfo and Cricbuzz, he was named captain of the 'Team of the Tournament.' In first-class cricket for the second year in a row, he also selected NZ player of the year, Test player of the year, and the Redpath Cup for top batsman.

Williamson became the thirteenth batsman to score a century against Zimbabwe in August 2016. He completed this in the fewest innings, the fastest time since his Test debut, and became the youngest player to reach this feat.

In March 2018, Williamson scored 102 against England at Auckland, setting a new record for scoring the most centuries by a New Zealand batsman in Tests. In the 2018 County Championship, he scored his 10,000th run in first-class cricket, batting for the English side Yorkshire. In the deciding 3rd game in the Pakistan away series, he scored his 19th Test century on December 8, 2018. Williamson became the first New Zealand player to reach 900 rating points in the ICC Test batting rankings on December 7, 2018. Williamson scored 200 not out as New Zealand revealed a team total of 715, their highest ever in a Test innings. He also became the first New Zealand player to score 6,000 runs in Test cricket.

He was named captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup in April 2019. He scored an unbeaten 106 to guide New Zealand to victory over South Africa over their 3,000th appearance as captain of New Zealand in ODIs during the tournament. Williamson won by 148 runs off 154 balls in a 5-run victory over West Indies on June 22, his career high score in ODI cricket. Williamson became Australia's third-fastest batsman to score 6,000 runs in ODIs just one week after being drafted in his 139th innings. After being named the highest scoring captain in a single World Cup, he was named Player of the Tournament at the end of the World Cup, scoring 578 runs in ten matches. The ICC and ESPNCricinfo have named him as captain of the 'Team of the Tournament.'

Williamson was nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade in November 2020, as well as the accolade for Test cricketer of the decade. Williamson scored 251 runs, his highest test result in the first innings of the first Test against West Indies, on December 4th, and NZ defeated New Zealand by an innings and 134 runs.

In June 2021, he led New Zealand to victory in the inaugural ICC World Test Championship, defeating India by eight wickets in the final. Williamson was appointed captain of New Zealand's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup in August 2021. After defeating England in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup under his captaincy, New Zealand defeated England in their third consecutive ICC event final across all formats. Williamson had a brilliant knock of 85 off 48 balls in the final, but the losing team lost by 8 wickets to Australia. He was New Zealand's top scorer in the tournament with 216 runs at an average of 43.20.

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