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West Indies vs New Zealand Scorecard, 2nd Test, New Zealand vs West Indies 2017-18
Result · Dec 09 2017, Sat - 03:30 AM (IST)
NEW ZEALAND373, 291/8 decl
WEST INDIES221, 203
New Zealand won by 240 runs
CRR:3.18
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | West Indies in New Zealand 2017/18 |
| Date: | Dec 09 2017, Sat - 03:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Hamilton |
| Venue: | Seddon Park |
| Toss: | West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Tom Latham, Jeet Raval, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Colin de Grandhomme, Tom Blundell (wk), Neil Wagner, Tim Southee, Trent Boult |
| West Indies Playing XI: | Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Kieran Powell, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope, Roston Chase, Sunil Ambris, Shane Dowrich (wk), Raymon Reifer, Kemar Roach, Miguel Cummins, Shannon Gabriel |
- The Black Caps have now won five of their last six Tests against the West Indies and have won the toss in each of their last five encounters.
- West Indies have lost both of their previous Tests against New Zealand at Seddon Park by margins of eight and nine wickets, both times after batting first.
- New Zealand are undefeated in their last four Tests at Seddon Park (W3, D1), last losing a Test at the venue in 2012 against South Africa.
- New Zealand will be looking to pull off a series clean sweep for the third time in their last four series, after picking up 2-0 series wins against both Pakistan and Bangladesh before losing their most recent series with South Africa.
- West Indies have only managed to win three of their last 22 Test matches played on the road (D4 L15) whilst the Black Caps have only tasted defeat once in their last eight home Test games (W5 D2).
- The Black Caps have now won 14 Tests against West Indies, against no team have they won more (also won 14 vs Sri Lanka).
- Trent Boult (currently 51 Tests) requires six more wickets to become the second-fastest New Zealand player to claim 200 scalps in Test cricket (behind Hadlee, 44 games); he'll go joint-second (with Courtney Walsh, 43) in the list of leading Test wicket-takers in matches between these two sides, if indeed he were to record six in this encounter.
- Ross Taylor (781) is just nine runs shy of eclipsing Stephen Fleming (789) as the most prolific run scorer in Tests at Seddon Park; he's averaged 63.6 across his 20 Test knocks since the start of 2016.
- Neil Wagner comes into this game on the back of taking 7/39 against the Windies; his best first-class innings figures to date and has now taken 72 Test wickets at an average 23 since the start of 2016.
- Kemar Roach has taken 30 Test wickets against the Black Caps, the fifth-most of any West Indies player and needs seven more to go into second on that list (behind Walsh).