The Black Caps have taken firm control of the first cricket Test against the West Indies in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
A five-wicket haul for Jacob Duffy saw the Windies dismissed for just 167, handing New Zealand a first innings lead of 64.<\/p>\n
The West Indies made a solid start to the day, Shai Hope and Tagenarine Chanderpaul taking them past three figures for the loss of just two wickets.<\/p>\n
Hope notched 50 before he holed out to Devon Conway at square leg.<\/p>\n
It has been a forgettable Test thus far for the Kiwi opener, who after getting out for a duck, dropped Chanderpaul twice at leg slip.<\/p>\n
However, much like Kane Williamson in the first innings who was also given a reprieve from a no-ball, Chanderpaul reached his half century, before Conway finally managed to pouch one on the third attempt. It was an excellent catch.<\/p>\n
With Chanderpaul in the sheds, the Windies tail offered little resistance, Duffy quickly mopping them up as the visitors lost their last four wickets for just 27 runs.<\/p>\n
The Kiwis have yet to lose a wicket in their second innings, with Tom Latham, 14, and Conway 15, at the crease with the lead nearing 100. The Black Caps were 32-0 at stumps.<\/p>\n
Play is set to resume at 11am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Caps have taken firm control of the first cricket Test against the West Indies in Christchurch.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6429,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-165683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-black-caps","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165683","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=165683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}