New Zealand head coach Gary Stead said that the change in format from T20s to Test cricket is likely to help Kane Williamson regain his form. Williamson had a horror run in the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL) as he scored 216 runs from 13 matches and failed to go at over a run-a-ball with a strike rate of 93.50.
The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) skipper has now returned home to attend the birth of his second child. Stead mentioned that the 31-year-old Williamson wasn’t satisfied one bit with his performances in the cash-rich T20 league on Indian soil.
“He’s a bit disappointed he hasn’t got the runs he wanted during the IPL,” Stead was quoted as saying to the reporters.
However, Stead backed the veteran batter to come good in the Black Caps’ upcoming Test series against Ben Stokes’s England later this year.
“You don’t often see the great players often miss out perhaps as much as he has, but I think what we have to understand, coming back in to red-ball cricket, I think that will suit where he’s at with his game, his temperament as well,” he stated.
“They’re having the baby in the next three or four days, and then he will be back three or four days after that,” Stead said.
