Personal Information

Full Name Kane Stuart Williamson
Born August 8, 1990 Tauranga
Age 34 Years, 4 Months, 19 Days
National Side New Zealand
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Off break
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting 3 35 85
Bowling 106 275 652

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
11 13 5 2 2

Career Information

Teams Played New Zealand, Gloucestershire, Northern Districts, New Zealand A, Yorkshire, New Zealand Under-19, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Barbados Royals, New Zealanders, Surrey Jaguars, Birmingham Phoenix, Gujarat Titans, Durban's Super Giants
Career Span

Kane Stuart Williamson Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
104 184 17 9076 251 v WI 32 37 1002 26 54.34 51.50 90 0 11 3 1 NZ New Zealand NZ
ODI
165 157 17 6810 148 v WI 13 45 622 55 48.64 81.38 66 0 6 11 2 NZ New Zealand NZ
World Cup
27 26 7 1167 148 v WI 2 6 114 10 61.42 81.21 11 0 0 1 2 NZ New Zealand NZ
T20I
93 90 13 2575 95 v IND 0 18 245 58 33.44 123.08 45 0 4 9 3 NZ New Zealand NZ
First-class
69 115 7 4875 284* v WF 10 28 620 20 45.13 52.73 65 0 12 2 4 - - -
List A
62 58 8 2164 112 v LEI 4 12 169 22 43.28 79.82 28 0 1 6 5 - - -
CL
7 7 1 244 101* v CC 1 2 24 8 40.66 151.55 2 0 0 0 6 ND - -
CPL
10 10 0 172 47 v GUY 0 0 13 3 17.20 89.11 7 0 1 0 6 - - -
IPL
79 77 17 2128 89 v DC 0 18 185 64 35.46 125.62 40 0 2 4 6 SRH Sunrisers Hyderabad SRH
Youth Test
4 8 0 372 151 v ENG-U19 1 2 35 0 46.50 - 7 0 0 0 21 - - -
Youth ODI
13 12 1 322 67 v IND-U19 0 2 24 2 29.27 53.04 8 0 0 4 22 - - -

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
67 358.3 48 1207 30 4/44 v ENG 3 0 40.23 3.36 71.70 51 1 NZ New Zealand NZ
ODI
65 244.3 2 1310 37 4/22 v SA 2 0 35.40 5.35 39.64 65 2 NZ New Zealand NZ
World Cup
6 22 0 106 2 1/25 v AUS 0 0 53.00 4.81 66.00 6 2 NZ New Zealand NZ
T20I
12 19.4 0 164 6 2/16 v BAN 0 0 27.33 8.33 19.66 12 3 NZ New Zealand NZ
First-class
75 745.3 127 2514 56 5/75 v CTB 6 1 44.89 3.37 79.87 56 4 - - -
List A
34 214.5 5 1073 30 5/51 v AA 2 1 35.76 4.99 42.96 34 5 - - -
IPL
2 3 0 31 0 0/7 v KKR 0 0 - 10.33 - 2 6 SRH Sunrisers Hyderabad SRH
Youth Test
2 15 1 48 0 0/4 v ENG-U19 0 0 - 3.20 - 1 21 - - -
Youth ODI
3 9 0 57 1 1/28 v ENG-U19 0 0 57.00 6.33 54.00 3 22 - - -

Kane Stuart Williamson Profile

At a time when New Zealand were struggling to get to grips with Test cricket after the retirement of the likes of Stephen Fleming, on came Kane Williamson, a young, technically-sound batsman with the skill to face lethal pace attacks and at the same time tackle quality spinners with nimble footwork.


Born in a cricketing family, the right-hander was a sensation from his school days and went on to represent Northern Districts at the Under-17 level. He made his first-class debut against Auckland in 2007 before captaining New Zealand in their 2008 Under-19 WC campaign. A decent 2008-09 season was followed by a fantastic 2009-10 one where he excelled particularly in the shorter format scoring 621 runs at an average of 77.62. This earned him a contract with the national side and he made his ODI debut in 2010 against India scoring ducks in his first two games. But in his fifth game, despite being injured and aided by a runner, Williamson showed great determination to score his maiden century which very nearly won the game for the Kiwis against Bangladesh. Later that year, he went on to score his maiden Test century in his very first game against India in Ahmedabad.


A quiet 2011 was followed up with a noisy 2012 when a gritty, unbeaten Test ton against the world's most dangerous fast bowling attack of Dale Steyn and co. saved New Zealand from a humiliating defeat. Williamson became New Zealand's youngest ODI captain as well as the fourth youngest in history when in 2012, he was appointed stand-in skipper in place of injured Ross Taylor for the series against West Indies. Given the quality he possesses, Williamson is arguably the best batsman that the New Zealand team has garnered from the current generation.


Williamson continued to perform well in international games and was appointed the deputy to Brendon McCullum for the 2015 World Cup. The Kiwi batsman had a quiet World Cup according to his standards but his knock against Australia when he took the Kiwi's home after surviving a devastating spell of fast bowling from Mitchell Starc proved his credentials. After the retirement of Brendon McCullum in 2016, Williamson was appointed the captain of New Zealand for all formats.


Williamson made his Indian T20 league debut in 2015 for the Hyderabad team as a back-up for David Warner and hence, did not get many opportunities in the initial seasons. In the 2018 edition, Kane was appointed the captain of Hyderabad in the absence of David Warner. He had a prolific tournament as he ended up as the highest run-scorer (735 runs) and also led his team to the final where they lost to Chennai.


The classic batting of Kane Williamson often overshadows his captaincy skills which were once again on display in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Riding on his great leadership and batting form, the Kiwis entered the final and gave England a good run for their money, missing the trophy by a whisker. Kane had an outstanding World Cup on a whole and was adjudged the Player of the Tournament.