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Black Caps captain Kane Williamson scored his 23rd test century on the second morning of the first Test against Pakistan at Bay Oval, helping his team build an impressive total after they were dispatched on Boxing Day. .
He was fired shortly after the 129 shots expertly caught by Haris Sohail in Yasir Shah’s bowling alley slide, to drop the 281-5 Black Caps, but by lunch BJ Watling and Mitchell Santner had moved them to 301-5, undefeated on 13 and 11 respectively.
Williamson was the second Black Cap to leave in the second hour of Sunday’s first session, but the first, Henry Nicholls, should have still been there; He was caught while pulling 56, but would have survived if he had reviewed the decision. .
After consulting with Williamson, Nicholls left the park, but replays showed that Naseem Shah’s ball had slammed into one forearm, then the other, before bouncing off and landing in Shan Masood’s hands, rather than his bat. or gloves.
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Black Cap Henry Nicholls went up in his fifties on the second morning of the first against Pakistan at Bay Oval, then was wrong by not reviewing his firing.
That wicket left the Black Caps 266-4, with Williamson and Watling in the fold, but Santner soon joined the keeper, remembered after a five-round absence, when the skipper left.
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Williamson was in the middle for all but three balls on the first day on Boxing Day, where he was not at 94 in stumps, after surviving an LBW appeal that Pakistan did not review.
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Black Caps captain Kane Williamson celebrates his 23rd century of testing against Pakistan at Bay Oval.
It took 25 minutes and 14 balls to add to his tally on Sunday, moving Shaheen Shah Afridi to the fine leg, then hitting three figures from the 18 ball he faced, driving Naseem Shah through the covers for four.
It was his second century in the same number of games, immediately following the 251 he made against the West Indies at Seddon Park in Hamilton earlier this month.
Williamson had already scored centuries in consecutive games twice in his career.
The first was when he made an undefeated 242 against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in January 2015, then backed it up with 132 against England at Lord’s, some five months later.
The second was later that year, when he made 140 against Australia in Brisbane, then 166 a week later in Perth, although on that occasion, there was another inning, where he made 59, in the middle.
When Williamson got to the fold, the Black Caps were 4-1, and soon slumped to 13-2 in the 11th second, but as their century progressed, they were 239-3.
Nicholls was at 42 for the night and pulled off his half century with a drive in the sheets for two from Shaheen, before leaving under unfortunate circumstances.
The rains were scheduled to hit Mount Maunganui on Sunday afternoon, with the possibility of thunderstorms and hail potentially also in store.
