New Zealand cricket team’s star batsman Kane Williamson shocked everyone as he announced his decision to quit the Test captaincy as he prefers leading the white-ball team.
Kane Williamson a great player when it comes to the Test cricket or ODI cricket, however, has failed to maintain the pace with developing T20 format and his strike rate in the format has been criticized a lot.
After announcing his decision to step down as New Zealand Test captain, Kane Williamson told in his statement that he wants to focus on leading New Zealand in the white ball format with the ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup coming in 2023 and 2024 respectively. Tim Southee is set to lead New Zealand in Test cricket from now on.
Meanwhile, the fans have been left frustrated that Williamson decided to quit captaincy in a format that suits him the most.
Kane Williamson stepped down as the New Zealand Test captain.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 15, 2022
Wrong format, to step down from captaincy https://t.co/7LgNC7K94W
— 7⃣2⃣* (@OMG___82) December 15, 2022Advertisement
Why he is good in that he should step down in t20 https://t.co/5aP5aleJOu
— ಶ್ರೇಯಸ್ ಮೇಟಿಕುರ್ಕೆ (@shreyasms) December 15, 2022
Why test he need to step down in t20
— Cricket Critics (@Cricket4critics) December 15, 2022
Ek time tha jab Virat, Smith, Root, Williamson ki captaincy ki compitition hua karti thi😢
— NIHAR (@NIHAR17284962) December 15, 2022
Disadvanatage NZ
— Haniel Peter (@peter_haniel) December 15, 2022
Should have retired from t20 and concentrate on longer formats
Why test? That was his best format! https://t.co/UYa8Ey0duD
— Sanyami (@Shaly_jain) December 15, 2022