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Jacob Duffy took 5-38 arsenic New Zealand cruised to a nine-wicket triumph implicit the West Indies successful the 2nd Test successful Wellington connected Friday (December 12, 2025) for a 1-0 bid lead.
Seamer Duffy bagged his 2nd five-wicket haul successful lone his 3rd Test to assistance rotation the West Indies for 128 aft luncheon connected time three, the hosts needing conscionable 56 for victory.
Devon Conway (28) and Kane Williamson (16) guided New Zealand to an emphatic triumph conscionable earlier beverage astatine the Basin Reserve.
Debutant Michael Rae took 3-45 for the location broadside portion Kavem Hodge was the prime of the West Indian batters successful their 2nd innings, scoring 35.
New Zealand pb the three-Test bid 1-0, aft the archetypal lucifer successful Christchurch ended successful a draw.
New Zealand skipper Tom Latham was delighted with however his inexperienced bowling portion took the combat to the visitors.
Like Duffy, Zak Foulkes was playing conscionable his 3rd Test match, Blair Tickner his 4th and Rae was connected debut.
“I deliberation the mode they stood up this week was outstanding,” said Latham, whose options were depleted by injury.
“We evidently weren’t astatine our champion with the bat, but I deliberation the mode the bowlers managed to propulsion ourselves good up of the crippled was great.”
It was a limp batting effort from the West Indies, who resumed time 3 astatine 32-2, trailing by 41 runs having mislaid John Campbell and nightwatchman Anderson Phillip precocious connected time two.
By luncheon they were connected the ropes astatine 98-6 and needing a important fightback -- similar they did successful the archetypal Test -- to person immoderate chance.
It took conscionable 9.2 overs for New Zealand to cleanable up the tail, the illness starting erstwhile Justin Greaves fell for 25 to an lbw disconnected Duffy that was reviewed by New Zealand and would person clipped the apical of limb stump.
“Obviously disappointed,” West Indies skipper Roston Chase said of his team’s batting.
“I thought we were successful a bully presumption up to this morning, adjacent though successful the archetypal innings we thought that we should person got immoderate much runs.
“But it didn’t happen, truthful precise disappointing for america aft the bowlers truly enactment up their hands and brought america backmost into the game.”
On time 1 the tourists were dismissed for 205, earlier New Zealand made 278-9 declared successful reply.
West Indies collapse
Brandon King and Hodge started brightly connected Friday (December 12, 2025), negating a transportation that was offering adaptable bounce to the New Zealand bowlers.
King was the archetypal to depart, for 22, aft a dreadful mix-up moving betwixt the wickets, tally retired by Michael Bracewell.
That sparked a mini-collapse arsenic archetypal Shai Hope and past Chase were removed by Rae and Duffy respectively.
Hodge patiently moved to 35 arsenic wickets fell astatine the different end, but helium departed aft Will Young took a stunning diving drawback from a propulsion changeable astatine midwicket.
Chase said his players needed to instrumentality accountability for their batting.
“It’s converting the commencement erstwhile you get in, buckling down and having that determination to transportation it arsenic acold arsenic possible,” helium said.
“(We got some) bully balls, yes, but I deliberation sometimes we conscionable springiness it distant and it’s a small excessively casual erstwhile we get to the 30s and the 40s.”
The 3rd and last Test is successful Mount Maunganui starting connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).
