{"id":302528,"date":"2025-12-07T03:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302528\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:11:14","slug":"west-indies-frustrate-new-zealand-to-draw-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302528\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies frustrate New Zealand to draw first Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justin Greaves scored a Test career-high 202 not out as West Indies made the second-highest fourth-innings total in history to earn a draw with New Zealand in the series opener in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Indies had been skittled for just 167 in their first innings and were set an imposing target of 531 &#8211; 113 more than the highest successful Test chase &#8211; after New Zealand declared on 466-8, but valiantly stood firm for the best part of two days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greaves faced 388 balls and batted for 564 minutes for his second Test century and compiled a resilient 180-run seventh-wicket stand with Kemar Roach, who posted a career-high 58, before New Zealand captain Tom Latham shook hands with West Indies 457-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Special day for me, special day for the team,&#8221; said player of the match Greaves, whose innings was hailed as a &#8220;Herculean effort&#8221; by West Indies captain Roston Chase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Resilience] is a word that we&#8217;ve thrown around in the dressing room a lot, so for me to be there at the end was really important. Anything for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Greaves scored a Test career-high 202 not out as West Indies made the second-highest fourth-innings total in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-302528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302528","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=302528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}