{"id":194139,"date":"2025-12-21T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194139\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:53:07","slug":"live-black-caps-v-west-indies-third-test-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194139\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Black Caps v West Indies &#8211; third test, day four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand have dismissed West Indies quickly on the fourth morning of the third test at Mt Maunganui and are now adding to their first-innings lead, as they chase a series victory.<\/p>\n<p>Openers Tom Latham (6no) and Devon Conway (25no) have put on 35 more runs by lunch, with the Black Caps now 190 runs ahead.<\/p>\n<p>They captured the last four West Indies wickets for just 39 runs in the morning session, with Kavem Hodge unbeaten on 123 runs and fast-bowler Jacob Duffy finishing with 4\/86.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand currently lead the series 1-0, after victory at Wellington, with the first test at Christchurch finishing as a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Black Caps squad: Tom Latham (captain), Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Michael Bracewell, Kristian Clarke, Devon Conway, Jacob Duffy, Zak Foulkes, Daryl Mitchell, Ajaz Patel, Glenn Phillips, Michael Rae, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Will Young<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JW1VU6_251221_NZvWestIndiesDay4_030_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1362\" alt=\"New Zealand batsman Tom Latham on Day 4 of the 3rd cricket test match between New Zealand and West Indies at Bay Oval in Mt Maunganui.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTom Latham ducks under a delivery against West Indies.<br \/>\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga\/Photosport\n<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have dismissed West Indies quickly on the fourth morning of the third test at Mt Maunganui&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194140,"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-194139","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\/194139","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=194139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}