Kane Williamson created history for New Zealand by scoring a century hattrick, equaling Kohli’s record

New Zealand Star Batsman Kane Williamson is in terrific form at the moment. He scored his 28th century in Test cricket in the second Test against Sri Lanka in the Wellington Test Match. With this century, he has equaled Virat Kohli among the batsmen who scored the most centuries in red ball cricket, but also created history for New Zealand. This is Kane Williamson’s third consecutive century in three matches back to back. Kane Williamson has also become the first batsman to do this feat more than once for New Zealand. Let us tell you, this Kiwi batsman had earlier scored a century in the first Test against Sri Lanka and the last Test against England.

Kane Williamson

Kane Williamson was not limited to his century. At the time of writing, he has reached a score of 158 with the help of 17 fours and 2 towering sixes. Kane Williamson crossed the 150-run mark for the 10th time in his Test career and became the first New Zealand batsman to do so. The record for crossing the 150-run mark most times in Test cricket belongs to Lord of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar who did this feat 20 times in his career.

This New Zealand batsman also crossed the 8000 run mark in the longest format of cricket on the strength of this innings and he became the first New Zealand batsman to do so. After Kane Williamson, the record for most runs in red ball cricket for New Zealand is in the name of Ross Taylor who scored 7683 runs in his career. Let us tell you, this is the 94th match of Kane Williamson’s Test career and he is scoring runs in this format with a average of 54.88.