Kane Williamson currently ranks third in total Test runs among the ‘Fab Four’ — a term first introduced by former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe in 2014 to describe the elite group consisting of Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Joe Root, and Williamson. Kohli, who recently retired after scoring 9,230 runs in 123 Tests, has become the first among the four to step away from the longest format of the game.
Williamson, meanwhile, has played 105 matches and accumulated 9,276 runs, trailing behind Smith, who has 10,271 runs from 116 Tests, and Root, who leads the group with 13,006 runs in 153 Tests. These four have graced the game for many years and have taken modern-day cricket to the next level.
“We’re human beings and your life situation changes.” – Kane Williamson
Williamson, now 34 years old, admitted that Kohli’s retirement — the first among the four — has led him to contemplate the idea of retirement himself and consider what his own “end point” in the game might look like.
“My first thought was ‘oh gosh, there’s an end point. Because before that, you’re on the journey, there’s a pursuit there. And it’s not connected to those other three, but we’ve all been playing at the same time, and we’ve all competed against each other for a long time and we all know each other pretty well. So then you do start to reflect a little bit. I know Virat pretty well, we’ve chatted a lot over the years, but you do realise that we’re not just cricketers as well, we’re human beings and your life situation changes.” Williamson told The Guardian in an interview.
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