New Zealand cricket captain

Kane Williamson

Kane Stuart Williamson is a New Zealand international cricketer and a former captain of the New Zealand national team. On 27 February 2023, Williamson became the all-time leading run-scorer for New Zealand in Test cricket. A right-handed batsman and an occasional off spin bowler, he is widely regarded as one of the world's best contemporary batsmen and one of the greatest New Zealand captains and batsmen of all time. He captained New Zealand to victory in the 2021 ICC World Test Championship final and to the finals of the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2021 T20 World Cup.

Born

1990

August 8

Died

Living

Era

1990s

Country

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About

Kane, in brief

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Key dates

1990 Born

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-685 Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the new Duke of Qi – but is defeated at Qianshi by Jiu's brother and rival claimant, the newly inaugurated Duke Huan of Qi.
870 Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.
1220 Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1264 Mudéjar revolt: Muslim rebel forces took the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera after defeating the Castilian garrison.

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The world in 1990

When Kane arrived

april 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
april 12 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
april 12 Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
april 23 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Artur Bernardes 1875–1955 Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (died 1955) Cecil Calvert 1605–1675 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1675) Esther Williams 1921–2013 American swimmer and actress (died 2013) Francis Hutcheson 1694–1746 Irish philosopher and academic (died 1746) George Clifford 1558– 3rd Earl of Cumberland, English noble (died 1605) Godfrey Kneller 1646–1723 German-English painter (died 1723) Hannah Miley 1989– English-Scottish swimmer Ken Dryden 1947– Canadian ice hockey player, lawyer, and politician (died 2025) Roger Penrose 1931– English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1990

Adam Thielen 1990– American football player Asha Philip 1990– British athlete Brock Osweiler 1990– American football player Choi Woo-shik 1990– South Korean actor Chris Colfer 1990– American actor and singer Geno Smith 1990– American football player Haruma Miura 1990– Japanese actor and singer (died 2020) Im Yoon-ah 1990– South Korean singer and actress Jae Crowder 1990– American basketball player

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