Kane Stuart Williamson is a New Zealand international cricketer. He is currently the captain of the New Zealand national team in all formats. Williamson made his first-class cricket debut in December 2007. He has represented New Zealand at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 editions of the Cricket World Cup and 2012, 2014 and 2016 edition of the ICC World Twenty20.
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Kane Stuart Williamson is a New Zealand international cricketer. He is currently the captain of the New Zealand national team in all formats. Williamson made his first-class cricket debut in December 2007. He has represented New Zealand at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 editions of the Cricket World Cup and 2012, 2014 and 2016 edition of the ICC World Twenty20. He made his full-time captaincy debut for New Zealand in the 2016 ICC WorldTwenty20 in India. He captained New Zealand to the final of the 2019 Cricket World World Cup. He was named in the IPL XI of the tournament by Cricbuzz for the 2017 season. In the 2018 IPL Auction, he was retained by the Sunrisers Hyderabad for US$460,500. He also won the Orange Cap for scoring the most runs in the2018 IPL season. Williamson was also reported for a high bowling action in April 2014, but was cleared in December 2014 after he started bowling illegal bowling action after he was encouraged by his school to do so. He reportedly scored 40 centuries before he left school. He played senior representative cricket at the age of 14 and first- class cricket at 16.
He signed for Yorkshire for the rest of the 2013 season and subsequently signed to return for the 2014 season, when his side won the County Championship. Williamson signed for Gloucestershire to play in the 2011 English county season. He scored his first ODI century against Bangladesh on 14 October 2010 in Dhaka and hence became the youngest centurion in New Zealand’s cricket history. In his first innings he scored 131 runs off 299 balls and became the eighth New Zealand player to score a century on Test debut. In November 2010 he made his Test debut against India at Ahmedabad. In June 2014, he scored his second century of the Test series and helped secure a rare away series victory for his side. He finished as the leading overall run scorer in the series with 413 runs, and was denied a double century by rain, which was the only rain-affected match of the series. On 6 February 2015, Sunriser Hyderabad signed Williamson for US $96,500 for part of the 2016 season.
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