Ken Williamson: A monk at 22 yards. 🏏🏏🏏

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Deadline swords are hanging over your head, tension and anxiety are almost like falling asleep. In that case, you submitted the project at the last minute, you got a promotion for it. Surely you will celebrate it, you can even shout ‘yes’. That is normal.

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Now imagine you are watching your favorite team play. You need 4 runs in the last ball, you are almost out of breath due to excitement and nervousness. The team won in that situation, you happily danced a couple of turns. As a human being, you must have emotions and feelings - so dancing is not unusual.

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Now think of the man with the brown beard. He is leading the team little by little towards victory, on the one hand he has to look helpless and his teammates come and go. When he took the game in the last over, the team looked to that guy to win. At that time he took the risk and finished one of the six matches. It became his century. But stay away from throwing empty hands or jumping with joy, did not celebrate. He just took off his helmet and hugged his teammate a little. That's all. And there is no sign of joy. It is as if he is shutting down his computer and leaving the office as soon as he finishes his office at nine-five.

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Well, that too was not accepted. But think of the World Cup semifinals. Opponent India is the absolute favorite. God defends New Zealand in the slogan of Bande Mataram. Jadeja and Super Cool Dhoni are taking the match out. First Jadeja out, then Dhoni run out on Guptill's ruler measured missile throw, the match is over. He took the team to the World Cup final, but there is no change in the man. Chewing gum chewed a little smile or not, that's all.

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Why Williamson is such a hugely inappropriate character in today's cricket. Like so many other things around us, when cricket is changing, when the 'X Factor' with performance is becoming an accompaniment to fame and success, when social media is buzzing, tweets, retweets and selfie exchanges - Williamson is awake from a distance. Like an island. None of this tumultuous noise touches him, like a monk at 22 yards. Even in this age when there is no Facebook-Twitter account, even in this dazzling time of showmanship, who looks like the boy next door - after the cricket match with whom you can talk over tea at the street side shop. The afternoon with which you would like to see your son play cricket.

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Let's turn to the time machine a little 28 years ago. Brett Williamson is lying on a couch in Tauranga, New Zealand. Little Ken was three then. The bat in one hand and the ball in the other, the purpose was clear ...
1.Dad will tell me a little?
2.Well, all right. Tell me.

Brett knew he had to do it. Ken has another twin brother, Logan. However, he is not very interested in sports. There are also three elder sisters. Although they are interested in other sports, they are not interested in cricket at all. That's why Brett has to do the ball.

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Not only that, little Williamson has been playing cricket ever since. He was equally enthusiastic about New Zealand's most popular sport, rugby. Williamson was great as a fly-half at school, and even dreamed of playing for the All Blacks, a couple of close friends said. Honestly, the game he was playing, how could he get his hands on it in a short time. Doug Bracewell has played for New Zealand in a number of matches, being Williamson's childhood friend.

Bracewell was saying that Williamson could have got into the game very quickly. He has no qualms about what is happening on all four sides. There was a time when he left rugby and turned his full attention to cricket, so it didn't take long for him to get up quickly. Being a twin boy, Ken's mother was very upset at birth. Who knows why that attempt to fight came from the womb.

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But there is a lot of talent. New Zealand cricket may have seen less of that, but it's not that no one has come like Richard Hadley, Martin Crowe. But Williamson was different elsewhere. The only thing that can be compared to Dhoni here is Williamson. That was actually from childhood. At that age, it was Father Brent Williamson who first noticed Kane's ability to make his teammates happy.

The incident probably took place in 2002. Ken was about 12 years old at the time, and he would flood the school with runs every match. Father Brent was the coach of the school team, he decided in a match that the boy is scoring a lot of runs, now let's give others a chance. But the rest could not take advantage of that opportunity. Why when the number eight, the team is in danger. From there he left the field after winning the team with the number 11 batsman. But he did not come out first, he gave the opportunity to his teammate number 11 to go out first. It was at that age that Williamson realized why he grew up alone at 22 yards. How many cricketers go through the whole career to understand the truth!

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Williamson is different from many others right here. What he can do with the bat, even if he has the slightest idea of cricket, he should know. One day you will take all the records of Kiwi batting, that too is just a matter of time. But the numbers don't really say anything. Williamson means the rage of classical music that becomes bhairavi, tanmay that can be heard for hours.Williamson's batting means control and authority at every turn of the bat, as if a skilled driver were driving the steering wheel with smooth hands, overcoming all the dangerous turns and death traps of the mountain. But the story of Williamson's batting can be told another day. For now, let's talk about Williamson.

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Seeing Williamson can get you into a lot of trouble. Suppose there is apparently no tension between the match between Australia and New Zealand when Carrie and Khawaja are taking out the match-Williamson. He doesn't even talk to the bowlers that way, as if he has fixed everything the way it is going. You might say, the captain has to be a little more aggressive this time, a little more vocal. But Williamson's thinking is different. The message that Jane Sannyasi has spread throughout the team is that New Zealand's biggest brand in this World Cup. As Martin Crowe said four years ago, he knows for sure where Williamson wants to go.

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If you've been watching cricket for a long time, can you remember any pictures of Williamson's broken joy? Well, if you can't do that, don't google it. Not much will be gained, Williamson's celebration means opening the helmet and that smile. Sometimes maybe it's a little wider. That's all there is to it.

He also got this education from his childhood. Growing up in the town of Tauranga, his association with the Pacific Ocean was from an early age. Surfing in the midst of cricket is his favorite job, and when he has time, he goes out with his friends on a surf board. Surrendering to the infinite shelter of the waves, taking in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. As Williamson himself put it, ‘there is no mobile at that time of surfing, no chance to disturb anything else. Just spend some time like yourself. 'The seed of this mantra of staying away from the footlights is actually due to its surroundings. Roger Federer will be the favorite person of such a person, what is strange about that!

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Brendon McCullum was asked several years ago if Williamson was a little nervous during the interview. Sometimes you can't find the answer, you feel a little hesitant about what to say. McCallum said the issue is not really nervousness at all. Williamson doesn't understand why he wants to know so much. Why talk so much about him!

Williamson has wanted to live this small life for the rest of his life. He didn't want to go anywhere so soon, he wanted to stay away from the fans. In New Zealand, however, it is not difficult, they do not have a separate relationship just because they play cricket. Even then, when you come to India or Bangladesh, you feel that insanity. Like the sages, he also enjoyed it calmly. However, he does not have a headache. Once asked, what is your favorite gift? Williamson thought for a long time, a headphone from a lover!

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Williamson is like that. Very few cricketers can take success or failure as a 'part of the game' in today's cricket. So do not fall into failure, do not fall into despair, do not fall into success again; He puts it all aside, like throwing water from a bird's feathers. After Kohli's loss to India, he said, he felt bad for breaking the dreams of so many people. He frankly admits that even if he wins the World Cup, he will not become an overnight star in New Zealand.