‘It’s progressed well in the last couple of days’ – Kane Williamson is confident about his return to team after hamstring injury

Kane Williamson is set to return to the New Zealand team for the series against South Africa which will start on February 4. Williamson suffered from a hamstring injury during the T20 series against Pakistan. Talking about injuries, Williamson has missed a fair amount of matches since last year starting from IPL following which he suffered a fractured thumb at the ODI World Cup and then had a hamstring strain during the Pakistan series. However, this time he is confident about his return to the team after injury.

Williamson said, “My hamstring is good, it’s progressed well in the last couple of weeks. Feeling good, and looking forward to getting back to training and joining up with the team. The weather has been incredible. Extremely hot, so yup I am confident and like I said will just be nice to join back up with the side and I think all the guys are really looking forward to getting back together as a Test team.”

The New Zealand team is facing a tough time when it comes to injuries. Apart from Williamson, fast bowler Kyle Jamieson was out of the with a back injury while wicketkeeper-batter Tom Blundell suffered a hamstring injury. While Jamieson has started playing cricket, Blundell hasn’t returned to cricket for a month now.

‘For us, we just want to focus on the cricket’ – Kane Williamson talks about match strategy before South Africa series

Kane Williamson is set to play the series against South Africa after returning from injury. He is quite confident about his team and also mentioned that the team is not taking the Proteas lightly as they know how powerful this team is and what they can do during matches. The Kiwis are looking forward to playing good cricket and beating the Proteas as they have never done that yet.

Williamson said, “For us, we just want to focus on the cricket that we want to play and the plans that we have and that doesn’t change from opposition to opposition. There are adjustments within the conditions etc, but there are a number of players in the South African side that members of our team are quite certainly familiar with playing county cricket and these things.”