{"id":330806,"date":"2025-12-06T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:22:09","slug":"new-zealand-vs-west-indies-first-test-day-5-highest-fourth-innings-chase-in-test-cricket-justin-greaves-150-kemar-roach-highest-test-score-live-scores-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330806\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand vs West Indies First Test Day 5, highest fourth innings chase in Test cricket, Justin Greaves 150, Kemar Roach highest Test score, live scores, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Indies are within 100 runs of doing the unthinkable on Day 5 against New Zealand in Christchurch, chasing the whopping target of 531 in their fourth innings.<\/p>\n<p>Batting all-rounder Justin Greaves has led the Windies\u2019 charge with the bat, crafting a career-best score of 184 not out that threatens to see a plethora of Test records crumbling.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander from Barbados has been aptly supported in his career-best knock by pace bowler Kemar Roach (53*), who himself is also amid his best-ever innings from 86 Test matches.<\/p>\n<p>Watch The Ashes 2025\/26 LIVE and ad-break free during play with FOX CRICKET on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MATCH CENTRE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/match-centre\/TEST2025-260701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New Zealand vs West Indies live scorecard, teams, updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Kiwis going wicketless for an extended period of time, Roach was handed a huge lifeline by the on-field umpire in the 143rd over, having been given not out for a caught behind appeal. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764969428_273_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Replays showed he had indeed hit the ball, leaving the hosts hapless, having already used their three reviews for the innings unsuccessfully. <\/p>\n<p>After the 142nd over, broadcast vision showed both Bracewell and stand-in wicketkeeper Tom Latham approach the umpire, with audio revealing one said: \u201cCome on Wharfy (Alex Wharf), get your bloody finger up, mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tourists needed 197 runs to win from a minimum of 17 overs remaining in the final session. At the time of writing, their score of 6\/434 is the eight-highest of all-time in the fourth innings of a Test.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the innings, Shai Hope also registered a ton, before being dismissed for 140 of the bowling of Jacob Duffy.<\/p>\n<p>While the West Indies will need to lift their run rate to usuurp their own record for the highest fourth-innings chase (418 vs Australia in 2003), the possibility remains live given they still have four wickets in hand. <\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Indies are within 100 runs of doing the unthinkable on Day 5 against New Zealand in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}