{"id":301772,"date":"2025-12-06T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301772\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:19:07","slug":"justin-greaves-202-leads-west-indies-to-improbable-draw-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301772\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Greaves 202* leads West Indies to improbable draw in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roach stayed on 53 for 72 balls, deadbatting everything, while New Zealand fed Greaves the single early in overs, trying to isolate the tail-ender. But Roach wasn&#8217;t playing like a tail-ender. He was playing like an 85-Test veteran who understood what this meant. Greaves began cramping in the final ten overs as he neared that double hundred; all that effort, all that tension finally manifesting. With a West Indian win out of the question, New Zealand crowded the bat, attacked with close-in fielders and threw everything they had left. On another day, it would have worked. On this most spectacular day, the opposition refused to budge and a Test match in New Zealand ended in a draw for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roach stayed on 53 for 72 balls, deadbatting everything, while New Zealand fed Greaves the single early in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[106121,2325,1721,119227,119226,620,101,56,54,55,1620,101397],"class_list":["post-301772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-1st-test","tag-2325","tag-cricket","tag-justin-greaves","tag-kemar-roach","tag-new-zealand","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-indies","tag-west-indies-tour-of-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}