Kane Williamson(New Zealand) tops the ICC Test Rankings for batsmen Monday Dec 21,2015

 

Kane Williamson became the first New Zealand player to top the ICC Test Rankings for batsmen following his match-winning unbeaten century in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Hamilton on Monday Dec 21,2015

ICC Test Rankings for Batsmen

Rank	Player	Country	Points
1	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	889
2	Joe Root	England	886
3	AB de Villiers	South Africa	881
4	Steven Smith	Australia	874
5	David Warner	Australia	863
6	Younis Khan	Pakistan	826
7	Hashim Amla	South Africa	810
8	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	808
9	Alastair Cook	England	803
10	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	764

Kane Williamson's two-spot jump helped him leapfrog Joe Root (886 points) and AB de Villiers (881 points) on the list. Following them and rounding the top five are the Australian pair of Steve Smith (874 points) and David Warner (863 points).

Kane Williamson, in the process of scoring his 13th Test century, surpassed Brendon McCullum's record of most Test runs in a calendar year (1164) by a New Zealand batsman.
In all formats, Kane Williamson has scored 2,633 runs so far this year, putting him fifth on the all-time list headed by Kumar Sangakkara (2,868 last year) and with three one-dayers still to play in 2015.

The 25-year-old now has the most Test centuries by a New Zealander in a calendar year and only Martin Crowe (17) has scored more Test match tons for New Zealand. He was duly awarded the Man of the Match as New Zealand chased down 189 runs - the second-highest run-chase at the Seddon Park - to clinch the series 2-0 and maintain their three-and-a-half-year unbeaten streak at home.

Despite averaging a staggering 90.15 in Tests played in 2015, Williamson was uncomfortable being the focus of attention at the end of the game and opined statistics were just byproducts of contributing to the team's cause.
"From my perspective the most pleasing thing is each game you set out, you want to contribute as best you can to a team performance," he said. "That's all I want to do really. You talk about (record) years and things. But its very difficult to look at it like that."