{"id":167353,"date":"2025-12-04T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167353\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:28:09","slug":"black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167353\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps v West Indies first test &#8211; day three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Caps are in firm control of the first cricket test against the West Indies after a dominant day three in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Centuries for skipper Tom Latham and number four batter Rachin Ravindra helped New Zealand set a solid foundation to reach 417-4 at stumps with a lead of 481 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Close to half of the Black Caps runs came in boundaries on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Openers Latham and Devon Conway resumed in the morning at 32 without loss, taking their partnership to 84 before Conway went for 37.<\/p>\n<p>Kane Williamson joined his skipper but just before lunch would send a feather thin edge behind off Kemar Roach to give the Windies a sniff.<\/p>\n<p>Roach then turned villain when he dropped Ravindra at midwicket as Latham brought up a patient half century from 120 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra got another reprieve on 13, as 12th man Kavem Hodge put down a regulation chance at slip.<\/p>\n<p>Upping the run rate, Ravindra raced to 50 from only 52 deliveries, as he and Latham took their partnership to three figures.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand captain brought up his 14th test century right on the stroke of tea, followed soon by Ravindra who needed just 108 balls for his fourth test ton.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps were cruising in the last session of the day before Latham was out for 145 off 250 balls very late in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Latham also passed 6000 test career runs with his captain&#8217;s knock on his homeground of Hagley Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra was eventually dismissed for his second highest test score of 176 when he was bowled by Ojay Shields.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than declare with their healthy lead, New Zealand batted out the day with Will Young (21) and Michael Bracewell (6) at the crease.<\/p>\n<p>The first ball of day four is at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>As it happened:<\/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\/1764833289_892_4JX0LDR_251202_NZvWestIndiesDay1_113_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"677\" 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.\"\/><\/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 are in firm control of the first cricket test against the West Indies after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167354,"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-167353","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\/167353","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=167353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}