Kane Williamson Ready to Play the WTC Final against India

 


New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is ready to take on India in the inaugural World Test Championships (WTC) final in June at Lord’s. He shared that playing against India will be a “fantastic challenge”. The final of the inaugural World Test Championships between India and New Zealand will be played in Southampton from June 18 as well.

While India will play a five-match Test series against England soon after the end of the WTC final, New Zealand will play two Tests against the hosts before they take on Indi in the much-anticipated WTC final.

“When we play against India, it has always been a fantastic challenge and so it is really exciting to be playing against them,” Kane Williamson said in a video posted by the ICC on its Twitter handle. “It’s really, really exciting to be involved in the final, obviously to win it would be that much better. We saw the contests in the WTC has brought real excitement.. the games were really tight such as in the India-Australia series and our series against Pakistan as well where you had to really fight hard to get the results, which is really great.”

Meanwhile, New Zealand pace bowler Neil Wagner has also revealed that India has a talented fast bowling unit that can trouble any batsman in the world as well as turn the table on the English conditions but he also shared that the wickets can turn anytime there as well.

“India has a lot of quality fast bowlers who have done well in different conditions, they can swing (the ball) under overcast conditions but when the sun comes out it (wicket) is flat and nothing happens,” Neil Wagner added. “(English) Conditions can change throughout and so I am not getting carried away too much, trying to control the controllables.”

 

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