{"id":530516,"date":"2026-07-17T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:43:10","slug":"black-caps-take-2-1-lead-in-west-indies-odi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/530516\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps take 2-1 lead in West Indies ODI series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Bowler Jayden Lennox shone again in the Black Caps&#8217; six-wicket win over the West Indies in Guyana in the third ODI, giving the team a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">After winning the toss, the Black Caps bowled out the hosts for just 140.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Lennox produced another player of the match performance, taking four for 52. The spin bowler was the best of the New Zealand bowlers in the second ODI, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/715970\/cricket-jayden-lennox-s-five-wicket-haul-sets-up-black-caps-odi-win-over-west-indies\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took five wickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The Black Caps inched their way towards victory, reaching the target in the 40th over for the loss of four wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Openers Henry Nicholls and Will Young scored 24 and 23 respectively, and Tom Latham saw out the run chase with 31 not out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The fourth ODI is on Monday morning in Barbados.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowler Jayden Lennox shone again in the Black Caps&#8217; six-wicket win over the West Indies in Guyana in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-530516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530516","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=530516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}