Gary Stead is confident Kane Williamson will be available for the second test against West Indies after the Black Caps captain missed training in order to be with his pregant wife.
Williamson revealed that he and his wife Sarah Raheem were expecting their first child during the first match of the series last week and that the due date was mid-to-late December - right in the middle of a busy summer of cricket.
Williamson had travelled back to his home town of Tauranga to attend a midwife appointment and backup batsman Devon Conway had been drafted into the squad as cover.
However, the Black Caps announced Williamson will return from Tauranga later today to rejoin the test squad in Wellington, calming fears that the world's number two ranked batsman would be missing from the second test. Conway was subsequently released to fly to Nelson to join New Zealand A to take on West Indies A in a four-day match.
Stead has spoken to Williamson and is confident he will be available to play in the second test starting at the Basin Reserve on Friday.