The opener raised his bat with a top score of 56 in Saturday’s T20 victory against Port Fairy.

Williams, who made his second half-century of the season, played down his starring performance.

The skipper said he asked his players every week to play their role for the team and he was not excluded from that.

“We just had to chase down less than 120 so it was just about getting a run a ball and do the right things,” he said.

“And I just needed to lead from the front at the top order by batting as long as you can when you can, so I was just doing what I had to do.

“Overall I was happy that I was able to hang around and get the runs by working the ones and twos then punishing the loose ball for four.

“That was probably the key because once you are in at the Reid Oval it is pretty hard to go out, especially with a white ball on a pitch that was keeping a little low.”

Williams’ innings was his second highest score of the season having made 65 in the opening round.

Since then he had produce a number of strong starts and failed on other occasions.

The Nestles leader said he was quite happy with his season.

“You always look to be better every game,” he said.

“Sometimes you rock up to games where it is definitely a bowl first wicket and unfortunately you get a good ball early when you open the batting.

“But when you get good wickets on good grounds like we did on Saturday you look to cash in and that’s what I looked to do.

“The T20 style is definitely not my strong suit, as I like the longer forms of cricket, so to get a few runs in the T20 I was really happy.”

Williams deflected the focus off himself and claimed it was a ‘team effort’.

“If you get the basics right in any form of cricket you are going to go a long way towards winning so that was what we did well,” he said.

“We fielded well, bowled well and did pretty well with the bat so overall I was pretty happy with the team performance.”

The win gave Nestles a boost in its bid to win the T20 title according to Williams.

“At the end there is $15,000 to be won and we all want to win it and we are one of 11 teams that want to,” he said.

“We’ve never done it before so that has been a focus for us the last month to really work hard on our T20 matches.”