Williamson bows out as New Zealand's most prolific batter

A look at all the key highlights from Kane Williamson's illustrious international career.

Test runs for Williamson, comfortably the most by a New Zealander in the format, well clear of the next best Ross Taylor (7683). He averaged 54.06 while doing so, the best among the ones to have aggregated at least 2000 runs for his country, followed by Martin Crowe (45.36). Overall, he sits fourth on averages in the 9000-plus runs club in Tests, after Kumar Sangakkara (57.4), Steven Smith (56.05) and Jacques Kallis (55.37).

Test tons by Williamson is comfortably the most for Blackcaps; the next most being Ross Taylor's 19. 11 of those came as captain, followed by eight for Stephen Fleming.

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- Williamson got five hundreds while batting in the fourth innings in Tests, the joint-most in the format alongside Younis Khan. Four of those resulted in wins, again the joint-most, alongside Graeme Smith.

- Williamson leads the double-hundred count for New Zealand too, with six such scores, followed by Brendon McCullum's four.

- Williamson is one of the 12 New Zealanders to have hit a hundred on his Test debut, having done that against India in Ahmedabad in 2010. Aged 20y 91d then, he remains the youngest from his country to have achieved this feat.

- Williamson scored Test hundreds in 10 different countries, a number matched by Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Yousuf, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, and only exceeded by Younis Khan (11).

instances of a New Zealander aggregating 1000-plus runs in a calendar year in Tests, two of them to Williamson: 1172 in 2015 and 1013 in 2024; Brendon McCullum aggregated 1164 in 2014. Williamson got five Test tons in 2015 - the most in a calendar year by anyone for his country.

- Having featured in 110 Tests, Williamson retired as one of the six New Zealanders with 100 Test appearances, alongside Daniel Vettori (112), Ross Taylor (112), Stephen Fleming (111), Tim Southee (107) and Brendon McCullum (101).

Player of the Match awards won by Williamson is the joint-most for his country in Tests, alongside as many for Daniel Vettori.

- Williamson led New Zealand in 40 Tests, leading them in 22 wins. They lost 10 while eight ended in draws. Only Fleming (80) has led the Blackcaps in more Tests). Williamson's win-loss ratio of 2.2 is the best for any New Zealand captain to have led in at least three Tests.

- Williamson averaged a whopping 81.12 in Test victories, second only to the great Don Bradman (130.08) among the ones with a 4000-run cut-off.

His average of in home Tests is bettered only by Bradman and Garfield Sobers among the ones with a minimum of 3000 runs.

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- Overall, Williamson aggregated 19346 runs in international cricket, topping the charts for New Zealand, followed by Ross Taylor's 18199.

His tally of 7256 is bettered only by Taylor (8607), Fleming (8007) and Martin Guptill (7346) for the Blackcaps in ODIs. As for T20Is, his 2575 runs is second only to Guptill's 3531.

hundreds for Williamson across formats is again the most for New Zealand, followed by Taylor's 40. Nathan Astle (27), Tom Latham (24) and Guptill (23) round off the top five.

- Williamson is one of the four players to have led New Zealand in over 100 international games, alongside Fleming (303), Vettori (142) and McCullum (121). He led in 91 ODIs, second only to Fleming's 218, and in 75 T20Is, which is the most for his country followed by Mitchell Santner (56).

The 2021 ICC World Test Championship victory and a runners-up finish at the 2019 ODI World Cup and at the 2021 T20 World Cup were the major highlights of his captaincy career.

runs for Williamson in the ODI World Cup is the most for New Zealand, followed by 1075 by Fleming and 1002 by Taylor. He also tops the aggregates for New Zealand in the T20 World Cup (727) and the ICC Champions Trophy (545).

- Williamson is the only captain to win the Player of the Tournament award in the ODI World Cup, having done that in 2019. He finished the tournament with 578 runs - a record tally for a captain in any edition then - until bettered by Rohit Sharma (597) in 2023.