Williamson's a star in the making
His second century drew praise from the likes of Neil Harvey and Barry Richards. New Zealand will be served well if he keeps it going
The acclaimed 1941 American drama Citizen Kane was said to have been "majestic, elegant and noble". Such words might well apply to New Zealand's latest batting hero, Kane Williamson. His match-saving, brave unconquered 102 against a quality South African attack at the Basin Reserve in Wellington the other day was truly magnificent.
At one stage he was hit in the nether region, his protective box split, leaving him writhing on the ground in pain and copping a few unkind words from the fieldsmen about him. But the youngster settled down and gritted his teeth, displaying a John Reid-like determination to bat on regardless.
This week's century, his second, one that anyone at the Basin Reserve who saw it will never forget, was made with the same bat he used to flay the Wellington attack at the same venue to the tune of 284 not out last summer.
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