Kane Williamson scored a century in the second consecutive innings, equaled the record of Bradman-Steve Smith and Joe Root

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is in great form these days. He has batted tremendously in the first match of the two-match series against South Africa. After scoring a century in the first innings, Williamson has scored a century in the second innings also. He achieved many achievements at Mount Maunganui. Williamson, who scored 118 runs in the first innings, scored 109 runs in the second innings.

Williamson became the fifth batsman for New Zealand to score centuries in both innings of a Test. Before him, Glenn Turner (1974), Geoff Howarth (1978), Andrew Jones (1991) and Peter Fulton (2013) had done so. This is the 92nd occasion when the same batsman has scored a century in both innings of Test cricket.

In this case Joe Root was left behind

Williamson’s tremendous form can be gauged from the fact that he has scored six centuries in the last 10 innings of the Test. The New Zealand captain’s scores have been 132, one, 121*, 215, 104, 11, 13, 11, 118 and 109 runs. This is his 31st century in Test cricket. He has come second in terms of scoring most Test centuries among active players. In this matter, he left England’s legendary batsman Joe Root behind. Root has 30 centuries to his name. Steve Smith is ahead of Williamson. He has scored 32 centuries.

Talking about the overall record, Williamson has gone ahead of West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Australia’s Matthew Hayden and England’s Joe Root in terms of scoring the most centuries. All three have scored 30-30 centuries. Williamson has now come to 13th position in terms of scoring most Test centuries.

Active players with most international centuries

In this matter, Bradman and Root are equal

Williamson scored his 18th Test century on home ground. In this matter, he equaled the great Australian batsmen Don Bradman and Joe Root. Bradman has scored 18 centuries each in Australia and Root in England. At the top in this matter are Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene, South Africa’s Jacques Kallis and Australia’s Ricky Ponting. All three have scored 23-23 centuries on their home ground. In 46 home Test matches, Williamson has scored 4487 runs at an average of 69.03.

Even equaled Steve Smith

Williamson became the second fastest player to score 31 Test centuries, joining Australia’s Steve Smith. This record is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved this feat in his 165th innings.

What happened in the match?

New Zealand had scored 511 runs in the first innings with the help of Rachin Ravindra’s 240 runs and Kane Williamson’s 108 runs. The South African team was reduced to 162 runs in the first innings. Kiwi team got a lead of 349 runs. At the end of play on the third day, he had scored 179 runs for four wickets in the second innings. New Zealand has taken a lead of 528 runs.