{"id":362963,"date":"2025-12-21T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362963\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:01:12","slug":"new-zealand-openers-break-test-records-against-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362963\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand openers break Test records against WI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third Test, Mount Maunganui (day four of five)<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand 575-8 dec: Conway 227, Latham 137 and 306-2 dec: Latham 101, Conway 100<\/p>\n<p>West Indies 420 all out: Hodge 123 and 43-0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-228952?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scorecard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Tom Latham and Devon Conway became the first openers in Test cricket to score centuries in both innings as the Kiwis set the West Indies a record 462-run chase for victory.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Latham scored 137 and 101 in the third and final Test of the series, while Conway added to his 227 in the first innings with a 100 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had put on 323 in the first innings and combined for 515 runs overall, which is a record for an opening pair&#8217;s total in a Test match.<\/p>\n<p>Conway also became just the 10th batter in Test history to score a double hundred and a hundred in the same match.<\/p>\n<p>He followed Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Shubman Gill, Graham Gooch, Marnus Labuschagne, Brian Lara, Lawrence Rowe, Kumar Sangakkara and Doug Walters in achieving that feat.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Windies had been bowled out for 420 &#8211; a deficit of 155 &#8211; earlier on during day four before Latham and Conway again took to the crease.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s opening batsmen, along with Kane Williamson (40) and Rachin Ravindra (46), helped their side to 306-2 before they declared to leave the visitors needing 462 to win the match and level the series.<\/p>\n<p>The West Indies openers reached 43-0 at the close, with John Campbell digging in to score two from 50 balls as Brandon King made 37.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766340072_203_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third Test, Mount Maunganui (day four of five) New Zealand 575-8 dec: Conway 227, Latham 137 and 306-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,197515,168856,188192,159647,24926,1736,85,39418,1211,197516,45885],"class_list":["post-362963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-devon-conway","tag-final-test","tag-graham-gooch","tag-greg-chappell","tag-kumar-sangakkara","tag-new-zealand","tag-sports","tag-sunil-gavaskar","tag-test-cricket","tag-test-history","tag-tom-latham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362963","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=362963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}