Daily Times
April 14, 2021
WELLINGTON: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee medal for the fourth time in six years, while women’s allrounder Amelia Kerr and rising star Devon Conway also claimed top honours at the New Zealand Cricket Awards for the 2020-21 season. Williamson was given the award on the back of his impressive run in Tests during the summer, where he scored a career-best 251 against the West Indies in Hamilton, followed by a century on his home ground in Tauranga during the Boxing Day Test. He also made a double-century against Pakistan in Christchurch, which helped New Zealand book their place in the ICC World Test Championship final. Overall, New Zealand won 17 out of 20 matches they played during the summer, and claimed all seven series.
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India’s lucky ground
It seems that the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India is famous for breaking or creating new records (“India: World s biggest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad renamed after PM Narendra Modi”, Gulf News, February 24). This is where our legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar became the first cricketer to reach a milestone of 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Another legend, Kapil Dev, surpassed Richard Hadlee s record haul of 434 wickets in the same venue. Now the local boy, Axer Patel, has created new records of being the first bowler to take 11 wickets in a Pink Ball Test match. He got wickets off his first ball in both innings. And R Ashwin reached a milestone to be the first Indian to cross 400 wickets in just 77 Tests. Finally, Virat Kohli surpassed Mahendra Singh Dhoni s winning record of 21 Tests as captain. Even the England captain Joe Root achieved his fabulous career-best spell of five for eight runs, which may remain for years to come. All in all, this stad