Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has applauded Kane Williamson for the success of the Black Caps in world cricket. Under Kane’s leadership, the Kiwis beat India by 8 wickets in the inaugural ICC World Test Championship final in Southampton.

While speaking with tvnz.co.nz, the former captain said that the Kiwis are ‘humble and hardworking’ and they have perfectly reflected the image of their skipper as well.

“To me, the last few years is where New Zealand has really [risen] under Kane Williamson’s leadership – that team is a real image of the skipper. The culture of that side is so much of what is New Zealand – we’re humble, hard-working, innovative when we need to be and represent our country with great pride and that’s what those guys do. This New Zealand cricket team is the perfect fabric of what we want.” Brendon McCullum said as quoted by tvnz.co.nz.

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However, cricket experts give credit to the veteran for the revival of the New Zealand team since their defeat in South Africa way back in 2013. However, the swashbuckling cricketer doesn’t believe that he single-handedly did all the changes in the team. Notably, the current team recently thrashed England in the two-match Test series by 1-0 as well just before the WTC Final.

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“I didn’t start it – everyone reflects back to 2013 as a bit of a ground zero moment for us; it was an important moment but you’ve got to go back generations. For generations, we’ve been trying different formulas and different fabrics and we’ve always been searching and I think in 2013, our search was pretty brutal. They’ve been knocking on the door of the ultimate success for a while now and to continue to keep doing it and keep believing in what they’re about as a cricket team and to be repaid now with the ultimate success of a World Test Championship is just so significant,” Brendon McCullum concluded.