{"id":168724,"date":"2025-12-05T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168724\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:05:09","slug":"live-black-caps-v-west-indies-first-test-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168724\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Black Caps v West Indies first test &#8211; day four"},"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>First ball is at 11am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWX03J_251204_NZvWestIndiesDay3_062_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Rachin Ravindra and Tom Latham partnership on Day 3 of the first cricket test match between New Zealand and West Indies at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand. Thursday 4 December 2025. \u00a9 Photo: Andrew Cornaga \/ Photosport\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nRachin Ravindra and Tom Latham<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":168725,"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-168724","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\/168724","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=168724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}