The stylish, aesthetic batting giant of modern cricket is born, New Zealand most prolific century-maker. There cannot be a better stage to start your career than register a century in front of your childhood hero. He scored sublime 131 in the Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Test.
The first Kiwi batsman to accumulate 900 rating points after his knock of 228 (89 and 139) runs in a memorable win in UAE their first series win in Asia in 49 years. The legendary allrounder Richard Hadlee who reached 909 points.
He scored his career-best unbeaten 242 runs and put on then record 365 runs for the sixth wicket with B Watling. The previous best was 352 between B McCullum and B Watling which they put on against India at Wellington. The current record is 399 runs between Stokes and Bairstow.
The Blackcaps skipper holds the record of being the youngest batsman to score centuries against nine Test-playing nations. 2015 was most prolific for Kane Williamson as with five test hundred he amassed 1172 runs in just 8 tests.
In 2014 Kane donated his entire match fees to the Peshawar school firing victims.
He leads Kiwis to cliffhanger 2019 World Cup final which ended in a heartbreaking loss for Blackcaps. The skipper was the fulcrum of teams batting lineup accumulating 578 runs. ICC awarded him the player of the tournament and later captain of the 2019 World cup team. He is the only second skipper to win this award, the other one being compatriot Martin Crowe in 1992.
His 735 runs earned him Orange Cap in 2018 edition of IPL where they lost to MS CSK in the final.
His match saving 102 where he batted for almost five and half hour to draw a test against Proteas.Kiwis were struggling at 83/5 with more than one and half session left , he first put on 80 runs partnership with Krugger and then unbeaten stand with Bracewell to draw the test.
The record three fourth inns hundred most by any player since 2010.
3533 partnership runs with Ross Taylor , BLACKCAPS most prolific test pair.
Kane in numbers
Home vs Away
| Inns | 100s | 50s | HS | Runs | Avg | S/R | |
| Home | 62 | 10 | 18 | 242* | 3149 | 58.31 | 54 |
| Away | 78 | 11 | 14 | 192 | 3327 | 45.58 | 49.57 |
| Overall | 140 | 21 | 32 | 242* | 6476 | 50.99 | 51.63 |
Kane year wise progression.
Kane in different countries
Performance against each country
