{"id":5581,"date":"2023-02-27T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T07:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=283751"},"modified":"2023-02-27T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T07:27:27","slug":"nz-vs-eng-kane-williamsons-132-off-282-breaks-multiple-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/nz-vs-eng-kane-williamsons-132-off-282-breaks-multiple-records\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ vs ENG: Kane Williamson\u2019s 132 off 282 breaks multiple records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As England has yet to chase the target, the iconic Test match between England and New Zealand will now come in front of each other for the final day clash.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley got off to a good start in the run-chase before the latter was dismissed late on Day 4, leaving England needing 210 runs to win the second Test. The target of 265 was set by Kane Williamson\u2019s 26th Test century, which was followed by half-centuries from Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell before Jack Leach\u2019s fifer bundled out New Zealand for 483 runs. Southee eventually cleaned up Crawley on 24 with a delivery that pitched and nipped in. Duckett and nightwatch Robinson batted safely through the final three overs of the day to help England reach 48 for 1 at stumps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Test century #26 for Kane Williamson \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NZvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NZvENG<\/a> live on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHHfZPyHf9\">https:\/\/t.co\/MHHfZPyHf9<\/a> with a Black Caps Pass \ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dn3WeeWGs5\">pic.twitter.com\/Dn3WeeWGs5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1630030782096986112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Talking about the man of the day, Kane Williamson smashed an incredible score of 132 runs off 282 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out these records which Williamson broke after his iconic record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kane Williamson reaffirmed his status as New Zealand\u2019s best batter when he surpassed long-time teammate Ross Taylor to become the Kiwis\u2019 all-time leading Test run-scorer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7787 \u2013 Runs<\/strong> scored by Kane Williamson in Test cricket. He is now the leading run-getter for New Zealand in Tests, surpassing Ross Taylor\u2019s 7683. Williamson overhauled Taylor\u2019s tally in 20 fewer matches and 35 fewer innings53.33 \u2013 Williamson\u2019s average in Test cricket is by far the highest for a New Zealand player (minimum 20 appearances). The next best is Martin Crowe at 45.36.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26 \u2013 Test centuries<\/strong> for Williamson, the only New Zealand batter with 20-plus centuries. The next best is Taylor with 19. Williamson has five double centuries to his name in Test cricket, the most by a New Zealander. His nine 150-plus scores and 59 fifty-plus scores in the format are also the highest for New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3930 \u2013 Test runs for Williamson at home<\/strong> \u2013 the most by a New Zealand player. He surpassed Taylor\u2019s 3905 runs during his century against England in Wellington. Williamson has played 43 Tests in New Zealand, with 32 fifty-plus scores, including 14 centuries, both being the highest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>63.38 \u2013 Williamson\u2019s batting average in home Tests<\/strong>, the highest for any New Zealand batter with a minimum of 1000 runs. It is also the fifth-highest average for any player with a minimum of 3000 runs at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.06 \u2013 Percentage of New Zealand\u2019s runs scored by Williamson<\/strong> in the 91 Tests he has played. This is the highest percentage of team runs for a New Zealand batter to have played 50-plus Tests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 \u2013 Williamson has scored at least one century against all the nine Test teams he has played<\/strong> \u2013 Australia (2), Bangladesh (3), England (4), India (2), Pakistan (5), South Africa (3), Sri Lanka (3), West Indies (3) and Zimbabwe (1). He is the only New Zealand player to score hundreds against nine nations in Test cricket and one of the 13 players overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 \u2013 Number of players with at least 20 Test appearances<\/strong> for a country with the most runs, fifty-plus scores, centuries, double-centuries and the highest average for their country in Test cricket, including Williamson for New Zealand. Like Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara tops all those lists for Sri Lanka in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As England has yet to chase the target, the iconic Test match between England and New Zealand will now come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[691,164],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kane-williamson","tag-new-zealand"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}