Kane Williamson, the New Zealand captain, topped 10,000 first-class runs as he brought the curtains down on his Yorkshire stint for the ongoing county season.
Williamson ticked off his latest batting milestone with a composed 51 in Yorkshire’s defeat to Somerset. The match was Williamson’s 131st in first-class cricket, and he’s now reached 10,039 runs at an impressive average of 48.03. Sixty-five of those matches have been Tests, in which he boasts an even better average of 50.35. In the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings for batsmen, Williamson is placed at No.3 behind only Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.
Williamson played three first-class and 10 Twenty20 matches for Yorkshire but will now leave to rest ahead of a busy international season, including an away tour of the United Arab Emirates to play Pakistan, followed by home series against Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. In the three long-form matches, he scored 218 runs at 36.33, while scoring 280 runs in the shortest format at a strike rate of 148.
