On the third day of the Karachi Test, on the basis of the century of former captain Williamson, New Zealand has taken the lead on the basis of first innings on Pakistan.
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First Steve Smith, then Cheteshwar Pujara and David Warner. These legendary batsmen of world cricket crossed the 100 mark within the last few months, ending the wait for their centuries in Test cricket. Now in the very last Test match of the year, New Zealand’s best batsman Kane Williamson has also ended his drought. The former Kiwi captain scored a century in Test cricket after about 722 days. Williamson completed the 25th century of his career on the third day of the Karachi Test against Pakistan and put the team in a strong position.
Just before this Test series, Williamson resigned from the captaincy of the Test team, so that he could perform better in batting. The immediate effect of this decision was also visible and in the very first innings, Williamson showered runs on the Pakistani bowlers. Williamson, who came to bat on the third day of the Test match, completed his century in one run in 206 balls in the last session.
Williamson lashed out at Pakistan again
Coincidentally, Williamson’s previous century also came against Pakistan. He played a tremendous inning of 238 against Pakistan in the Christchurch Test in January 2021. Since then, Williamson was yearning for a century. However, during this time Williamson was also troubled by injury and he played only 10 innings in almost 2 years.
Williamson’s bat has run continuously against Pakistan and he has scored his fifth century in 23 innings against this team. Only against Pakistan, he has scored more than a thousand runs (about 1400) in Tests.
made a record
Not only this, with this century, Williamson has done such a feat, which even great batsmen like Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Steve Smith, Joe Root could not do. Williamson has become the first non-Asian batsman to score Test centuries in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Even Williamson has scored 2 centuries in UAE where Pakistan played many of their test matches.
New Zealand lead
This is Williamson’s first tour of Pakistan and its start has been amazing. On the basis of his century, New Zealand crossed Pakistan’s score of 438 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 2 runs. New Zealand ended the third day with 440 runs for 6 wickets. Williamson returned unbeaten after scoring 105 runs. Apart from Williamson, Tom Latham also played an excellent inning for New Zealand and scored 113 runs, while Devon Cowen missed a century. He got out after scoring 92 runs.