{"id":163975,"date":"2025-12-02T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:50:09","slug":"black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163975\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps v West Indies first test: Day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s advantage West Indies after day one of the first test in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps stumbled to stumps at 231 for nine after a solid platform was laid at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing Devon Conway in the opening over for a duck, Tom Latham and Kane Williamson steadied the ship, compiling a 92-run partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson survived seeing his bails sent flying on 33 after Ojay Shields was shown to have overstepped.<\/p>\n<p>However, Williamson would soon be caught behind on 52, followed quickly by Latham for 24, Rachin Ravindra and Will Young.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Blundell was castled by Shields for 29, while Nathan Smith managed a fighting 23 before he held out to John Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>With Michael Bracewell approaching his half century he too fell to the bowling of Shields, with Matt Henry joining him in the sheds soon after.<\/p>\n<p>With just one wicket it hand, it&#8217;s now up to bowlers Zak Foulkes and Jacob Duffy, both unbeaten on four, to eek out as many runs as possible tomorrow morning after a day which well and truly belonged to the Windies.<\/p>\n<p>Day two resumes at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Follow how the first day played out in our blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kane Williamson. Photo: Chris Symes \/ www.photosport.nz It&#8217;s advantage West Indies after day one of the first test&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-163975","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\/163975","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=163975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163975\/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=163975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}