By Richard Edwards

Gifted: New Zealand laud Kane Williamson

THERE are four certainties in the modern age – life, death, taxes and, of course, runs flowing from the bat of Kane Williamson.
In the Champions Trophy, the classically clinical Kiwi has already scored a masterly hundred against Australia and an equally impressive 87 in a losing cause against England.
That, though, is merely par for the course for a player who – alongside Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Steve Smith – finds himself knee-deep in the scrap to be recognised as the world’s number one batsman.
Having...