{"id":463686,"date":"2026-05-28T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463686\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:06:13","slug":"ravindra-and-blundell-hit-centuries-as-nz-and-ireland-meet-for-1st-time-in-a-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463686\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravindra and Blundell hit centuries as NZ and Ireland meet for 1st time in a test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) \u2014 Rachin Ravindra and Tom Blundell hit centuries as New Zealand recovered from losing two early wickets to reach 361-5 at stumps on the opening day of its first-ever cricket test match against Ireland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra finally fell to Harry Tector&#8217;s spin after scoring 121 runs. Blundell scored 142 not out.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts earlier won the toss and chose to bowl in the one-off, four-day match at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>Irish pacer Mark Adair marked the occasion by bowling New Zealand captain Tom Latham (0) off the second ball of the first over and also claimed Devon Conway (4).<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra and Blundell came together at 86-4. They shared a 217-run partnership with New Zealand at 303-5 after Ravindra&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will play England in a three-test series starting June 4 at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) \u2014 Rachin Ravindra and Tom Blundell hit centuries as New Zealand recovered from losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215822,85,12110,215821,46,215823,1630,155889,153468,153466,155888,105,215824,215825],"class_list":["post-463686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-harry-tector","tag-il","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-new-zealand-cricket","tag-israel","tag-mark-adair","tag-new-zealand","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-sports","tag-tom-blundell","tag-tom-latham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}