{"id":164723,"date":"2025-12-02T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:46:08","slug":"williamson-is-black-caps-best-as-windies-finish-day-one-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164723\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson is Black Caps&#8217; best as Windies finish day one on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s advantage West Indies after day one of the first Test in Hagley Oval in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps stumbled to stumps at 231-9 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>In what may be his final Test series, 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 holed 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>The Test is live and free on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/livetv\/tvnz-duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ Duke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/sport\/cricket\/blackcaps\/blackcaps-v-england-3rd-odi-p-neke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TNVZ+<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s advantage West Indies after day one of the first Test in Hagley Oval in Christchurch. The Black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6429,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-164723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-black-caps","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164723","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=164723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}