Kiwis Skipper Kane Williamson Collects ICC Spirit Of Cricket Award 2018

In the modern-day cricket, where emotions fly high, Kane Williamson of New Zealand showing the world how the gentlemen sport should be played. New Zealand has always been the best producers of gentlemen cricketers and it seems like Kane Williamson is carrying the legacy without any remark. Meanwhile, he collects ICC Spirit Of Cricket Award 2018.

One can easily find those verbal banters and heated exchanges in the bilateral series but when you lock horns against New Zealand in the bilateral series, they have always hosted the visitors with the utmost respect and also travelled in the same way. For the same, Kane Williamson lauds his entire unit.

We are all ambassadors of the game – Kane Williamson

Collecting the trophy, the skipper of New Zealand termed that the award reflects the style of Kiwis playing the game. He believes that the award he collected has also got the hands of his teammates, who behaved like a gentleman.

Further, the skipper quoted that the cricketers are ambassadors of the game, thus, need to play the game in a fair manner. He believes that even at the highest level, the game can be played in a calm and composed way by keeping ethics in balance.

”We are all ambassadors of this game, so playing in the right spirit, those sorts of characteristics are really important even at the highest level. It is a nice award. It is important for us as a group that we keep looking to do better in all areas, and one of those areas is to continue playing the game in the right way, as to how we see it being right,” Kane Williamson quoted as per ICC official website.

Well, Kane Williamson is the deserving cricketer to collect the award. Even a player like Virat Kohli has hailed the captaincy of Williamson and their boys behaviour on and off the field when they toured India in 2018.

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