Kane Williamson to make a personal apology to Jofra Archer for 'racial abuse' by a spectator

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson will apologize to England's pacer Jofra Archer personally after he was subjected to 'racial insults' by a spectator in the final day of the opening Test between both countries.

Williamson expressed his shock on hearing about the incident and revealed that neither he nor his teammates knew anything about it until Archer announced it on his Twitter handle.

It is certainly against everything that we as Kiwis are about, and I certainly hope that nothing like that ever happens again. I can only apologise on behalf of Kiwis to Jofra, not only from our team and how we look to conduct ourselves, but what we expect of Kiwis in general.

It is a horrific thing. In a country, and a setting where it is very much multi-cultural, it's something we need to put to bed quickly and hope nothing like that ever happens again. It certainly won't if there's any influence we can have on it.

A bit disturbing hearing racial insults today whilst battling to help save my team , the crowd was been amazing this week except for that one guy , @TheBarmyArmy was good as usual also

— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) November 25, 2019

Was I shocked? Absolutely, 100 percent. I will try see him over the next few days if I can, definitely.

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Earlier on Monday, the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced an official apology to the bowler and stated zero tolerance towards racism. The statement said:

NZC has zero tolerance towards abusive or offensive language at any of its venues and will refer any developments in the case to police.

New Zealand defeated England in the first Test by an innings and 65 runs in Bay Oval. The second Test will start on 29th November in Hamilton.