New Zealand batter Kane Williamson called his team’s series whitewash win over India in their own backyard as their “greatest achievement” and something that sits “very very close” to the side’s win in the inaugural ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final against the same opposition.

Williamson was speaking during the CEAT Cricket Ratings Awards in Mumbai on Tuesday. Last year, New Zealand pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in cricket history, ending India’s unbeaten 12-year-run at home in Test cricket and that too with a first-time-ever 0-3 whitewash. Spinners Ajaz Patel and Mitchell Santner outspun and outplayed their Indian counterparts and batters so brilliantly that the phase from this series to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia ended up being a retirement tour of sorts

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