This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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On Day 3 of the second test clash, the Black Caps responses strongly after conceding a first innings lead of 239 against West Indies on Wednesday, reaching 73 for 1 in their second innings at stumps.
No. 3 Kane Williamson hit an unbeaten 38 and shared a determined, unbroken second wicket stand of 64 with opener Tom Latham, who also remained not out at 30.
Pacer Jerome Taylor had successfully dismissed the New Zealand captain and stand-in opener Brendon McCullum to finish at 1 for 15.
Earlier, the Caribbean team replied to Kiwi’s first innings of 221 by stretching their overnight score of 310 for 5 to 460 all before tea.
Newcomer Jermaine Blackwood scored a forthright 63 by sharing stands of 47 with veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul and 76 with skipper Denesh Ramdin to lead his team to take a huge lead. Chanderpaul had made 47 while Ramdin scored 32.
New Zealand had collected the wickets of nightwatchman Kemar Roach (6) and Chanderpaul earlier in the morning. Roach chipped Trent Boult to short midwicket at 333 for 6 while Chanderpaul was given lbw playing no stroke to a big-spinning leg break from Ish Sodhi – after a TV review – at 380 for 7.
However, Blackwood and Ramdin had solidified their lead after the break with a well scored half century stand.
Afterwards, the tourists did well to wrap up the home team by collecting three wickets for only four runs. Blackwood edged to Ross Taylor at first slip off Sodhi while Ramdin picked out the same fielder, who dived to his right to haul in a brilliant catch to give seamer Jimmy Neesham his first scalp.
Sodhi ended the West Indies’ resistance when Jerome Taylor (4) holed out to long-off. The legspinner earned career-best figures of 4 for 96 while left-arm seamer Boult took 3 for 75.
New Zealand, forced to open with captain McCullum due to the ill Hamish Rutherford and survived without any loss to tea.
But Taylor struck early in the final session when he gained an lbw verdict against McCullum (3), who failed as he tried to overturn the decision on TV review.
But Latham, with three successive half centuries behind him, and the equally assured Williamson played cautiously against the hosts over the next couple of hours to survive till the stumps.
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