Kane Stuart Williamson commonly known as Kane Williamson is a cricketer of New Zealand. Kane represents New Zealand in all three formats of cricket. He is also the captain of the New Zealand cricket team in all three formats.
Kane is a right handed batsman and an occasional right arm off break bowler.
Kane was also part of the New Zealand Under-19 team. In the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup he was selected as the captain of the team.
Kane represented New Zealand in three consecutive Cricket World Cups and in many other important tournaments.
Williamson also won the man of the tournament award in the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
Kane Williamson is considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
With all this success Williamson also gained a huge amount of wealth. In 2021 it is estimated that Williamson’s net worth is approximately USD 9 million.
Kane Williamson is a key player for New Zealand in all three formats of cricket. He helped his national side to win many crucial matches from time to time. Kane is bound to New Zealand’s cricket board with a contract according to which he gets USD 440K annually. He also gets match fees as per match. He gets USD 8,495 for each Test match, USD 3,682 for each ODI and 2,407 for each T20i.
Williamson started his first class career at a very early age. He was only seventeen back then. He started his first class cricket career with the team called Northern Districts. Northern Districts cricket team is a domestic cricket team of New Zealand. Williamson charges around USD 250K for each season.
Williamson started his IPL career back in 2015 with the team called Sunrisers Hyderabad and he has been playing for them ever since. In his first season of the IPL back in 2015 he got INR 6 million as salary for that season. The next two seasons he got the same amount of money. In 2018 he got a raise in his paycheck and started to get INR 30 million for each season. This contract is active till date.
Kane also played County cricket for some time with various teams such as Yorkshire and Gloucestershire. He accumulated a total of USD 1 million for them.