{"id":165210,"date":"2025-12-03T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:11","slug":"live-black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165210\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Black Caps v West Indies first test: Day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Caps take on the West Indies for day two of their first test of the summer from Hagley Oval in Christchurch, and it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/580601\/black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-one\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advantage West Indies after day one<\/a>.<\/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><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<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JX0MZC_251202_NZvWestIndiesDay1_102_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"660\" alt=\"New Zealand\u2019s Michael Bracewell during play on Day 1 of the first cricket test match between New Zealand and West Indies at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand. Tuesday 2 December 2025. \u00a9 Photo: Andrew Cornaga \/ Photosport\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMichael Bracewell<br \/>\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga \/ www.photosport.nz \/ Photosport Ltd 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Caps take on the West Indies for day two of their first test of the summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-165210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165210","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=165210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}