Spinner Jayden Lennox tore through the West Indies, taking 5\/19, as the Black Caps won a low-scoring second ODI by five wickets in Guyana.<\/p>\n
The five-match series is level after the hosts were dismissed for just 138 in the 36th over, and New Zealand responded with 141 for 5 in the 33rd – led by Tom Latham’s 37 not out.<\/p>\n
Daryl Mitchell and Will Young both added 28 runs apiece.<\/p>\n
Lennox, who has only played seven matches for New Zealand, claimed the third-best ODI figures ever by a Black Caps spinner.<\/p>\n
The Black Caps won the toss and asked the West Indies to bat and the New Zealand spinners got on top of the home side early.<\/p>\n
Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner removed both openers, before Lennox got in on the action.<\/p>\n
Santner admitted it was a “nice toss to win”.<\/p>\n
Lennox, named Player of the Match, said it was special.<\/p>\n
“The role of a spinner in New Zealand is a little different from one elsewhere, so to be able to contribute the way I’ve been able to is pretty great.<\/p>\n
“I suppose there’s a bit of extra pressure on a pitch like this because the bowling attack looks at you to take wickets. Back home it’s more of a containment role, so definitely an enjoyable challenge.”<\/p>\n
New Zealand lost the first game of the five-match series by seven wickets.<\/p>\n
The third ODI will be in Guyana on Friday before the final two are held in Barbados.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spinner Jayden Lennox tore through the West Indies, taking 5\/19, as the Black Caps won a low-scoring second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-798844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798844","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=798844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}