O captain! My captain!
Williamson steps down as skipper, hands the helm to Southee
Kane Williamson wasn’t the perfect test captain, but he was the closest we’ve come.
The news that he has handed over the reins of the test side didn’t necessarily come as a shock - it has been a discussion point at New Zealand Cricket for some time - but some of us were ever hopeful that the test captaincy would be the one he clung onto the longest, not the one he relinquished first.
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