New Zealand vs England: Five Highlights from Day One

#3 Wonderful Williamson

Williamson struck a Polished 91

If England poor show had made us believe that this pitch was a green seamer, Williamson dispelled those notions to bed with an unbeaten 91.

He along with first Tom Latham and Nicholls later went on to show the English batsmen the kind of application needed on this surface.

Latham, solid and sedate, and Williamson, elegant and enterprising, set about erasing the deficit and by dinner break they had gone 30 in front of the English total with the visitors looking down the barrel.

Nicholls and Williamson avoided further hiccups in the last session with an unbeaten partnership of 52.

Williamson drove imperiously through the offside and scored a total of 32 runs through the cover point region.