{"id":163520,"date":"2025-12-02T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:11:08","slug":"live-black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163520\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Black Caps v West Indies first test: Day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Caps take on the West Indies in their first test from Hagley Oval in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has played just two Test matches so far in 2025, beating Zimbabwe 2-0 in Bulawayo in August.<\/p>\n<p>Since then they&#8217;ve played 17 white-ball games against Australia, England and West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team is clear in their test match identity, they&#8217;ve done incredibly well as a unit, so just to fall back into that,&#8221; coach Rob Walter said on the eve of the three match series.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is ranked fifth in the World Test rankings, with West Indies eighth.<\/p>\n<p>First ball is at 11am. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JX18W3_251202NZLvWestInd_D1_007_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Kane Williamson.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nKane Williamson.<br \/>\nPhoto: Chris Symes \/ www.photosport.nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Caps take on the West Indies in their first test from Hagley Oval in Christchurch. New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-163520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}