Despite defeat, Williamson hails learning experience

After all the New Zealand talk that a one-off Test would be “exciting”, they’ve actually decided they would have preferred a few more matches after they lost at SuperSport Park.

“It’s a shame, really, to just play the one Test and for that to be the decider,” New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said.

Centurion became a shoot-out because of the Durban abandonment and, in a bid to strike the first blow, Williamson chose to bowl first. He saw grass on the Centurion pitch – more grass than we sometimes see at the height of the summer – and he had heard that it would be soft and spongy and would get easier for batting as the sun baked the surface. It turned out that Faf du Plessis would have done exactly the same thing, even though hindsight showed it would have been a mistake.

“It was a good toss to lose and unfortunately I won it,” Williamson said, as he admitted he second-guessed himself by the end of the first session on the first day. “Naturally when they are 130 without loss, it crosses your mind. But there was enough in the …

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