Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    86.4 West Indies finally have a breakthrough! Lands it on a shorter length and gets a hint of wobble away from fourth stump, leans forward in an attempt to slice it away and gets caught by Chase in the slip cordon. Gone after a sublime century and cashed in on his rich vein of form. Now then, there is an opportunity to pick another wicket with stumps not far away. Something to rejoice for West Indies 323/1
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    367
    524
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    120.6 given out lbw and Conway is happy to walk off. A monumental innings from Conway. He's carried NZ on his back but for right this moment he is not quite up to the ball keeping a smidge low on middle and off stump. Once again it's Greaves getting the reward for hitting that good length area and testing the batter, searching for his vulnerabilities. 432/4
    93.4 caught behind. Beautiful stuff from West Indies. Basic really. Hitting the good length area. Drawing just enough movement away from the bat. Duffy has to play, the line is straight enough to warrant that. Only manages an edge through to Imlach 350/2
    114.1 Massive breakthrough! Length or thereabouts, floating in the channel with a slight deviation, goes chasing it, trying to play an expansive drive and gets a bit late, ball takes a feather edge. Excellent bowling and set-up. Straightforward catch for the keeper. Greaves celebrates with a big broad smile 419/3
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    129.2 caught down the leg side and Mitchell is walking off with a dark cloud over his head, angry at himself for being done like that. Chase pulls a little rabbit out the hat, going a touch wider on his crease, angling the ball in on middle, getting extra bounce and loads and loads of turn, taking a glove through to the keeper Imlach who has done really well despite being blinded by the batter's shot 455/5
    132.5 Thumped hard into the surface and offers more width, successfully lures him into a wild slash and he edges it to the keeper, absolutely elated and over the moon, good passage of play for West Indies. Extra bounce and the outside edge was safely snaffled by keeper behind the stumps 461/6
    146.6 taken at first slip. Phillips looks to force the pace too against a back of a length ball outside off but his intention to hit the ball square through point ends up in the hands of Chase behind the wicket thanks to a bit of extra bounce 522/7
    148.3 through him, that's a beauty! Phillip has a habit of producing these. He took Williamson down with one earlier in this series. Here the pitched up ball swings into the right-hander in the air, so Foulkes sets up with a flick to mid-on, but after pitching it holds its line, beats the closed face and crashes into off stump. Unplayable 536/8
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    Extras
    16 (b 2, lb 2, nb 2, w 10)
    TOTAL
    575/8d (155 Overs, RR: 3.7, 674 minutes)
    Did not bat: MD Rae
    Fall of wickets: 1-323 (Tom Latham, 86.4 ov), 2-350 (Jacob Duffy, 93.4 ov), 3-419 (Kane Williamson, 114.1 ov), 4-432 (Devon Conway, 120.6 ov), 5-455 (Daryl Mitchell, 129.2 ov), 6-461 (Tom Blundell, 132.5 ov), 7-522 (Glenn Phillips, 146.6 ov), 8-536 (Zak Foulkes, 148.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    KAJ Roach1936313.3100
    JNT Seales33410023.0320
    A Phillip29415425.3101
    JP Greaves2948322.8610
    RL Chase44115913.6111
    KAR Hodge101201200
  • BATSMEN
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    24.6 taken at second slip! Campbell walks off with his head thrown back. Exactly the wrong shot to play. Exactly the right length to bowl. Exactly what was missing last evening. Duffy occupies the corridor outside the off stump. He pitches it on a good length, on that 5-6m area. The left-hander is late coming forward, he's mostly out there with his hands, dangling in the wind. The front foot actually lands well after the edge is taken 111/1
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    34.1 off the pad and into the stumps. King much too late to respond to a ball that he might well consider an opportunity for runs. It was swinging into his pads, maybe a little more than he is ready for. And since he didn't pick that up, he was hurrying into the shot, falling away, losing his balance and in the end merely deflected it onto his stumps 140/2
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    55.2 that's poor. The line is so wide. The length is not drivable. Yet Imlach goes for it. He would've looked a million dollars had it gone off the middle. But the likelihood of that happening was minuscule. Decision making error lets New Zealand off the hook as a healthy nick carries through to the keeper 206/3
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    71.4 Rattles the stumps! Good length and slanting into the pads, clears his front leg and got caught up in two minds, ball richochets off the his pad to the stumps and his innings comes to an end in an unfortunate fashion, went back in his crease and just got stuck deep in the crease 267/4
    94.4 there's the lbw that he's bowling for. Very full. Very straight. Inexplicable that Greaves has missed this. Especially in the driving form that he's in. He's reviewed it though. Ultraedge shows no bat. Impact is on the back pad. Three reds confirming the on-field decision 348/5
    97.1 does him in, lbw but Chase wants a review. Ajaz was working towards this in the last over too. Keeps it on a good length. Keeps it on a tight line. Chase continues to play from the crease. And the moment the ball skids on he's in trouble. Hurrying to bring the bat down, it's a closed face, he makes zero contact. And it's three reds. The WI captain has had a difficult tour of NZ. Bags only the third single-digit score in a match of nearly 250 overs. 351/6
    114.3 And Duffy strikes in his first over of the day! Back of length outside off and it kicks off the surface and seams away to take the outside edge from Anderson Phillip. He couldn't do much more than try and fend that on the back foot, but his 64-ball vigil has come to an end, with the ball going off the shoulder. A lot of extra bounce there. Did that come off a crack? 386/7
    116.2 Top edged and it's taken! Short ball ploy works for Duffy. This is banged in short just outside off and Hope skied it as he tried to pull. Foulkes runs to his right from long leg and settles under it and Hope's stay is a short one 390/8
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    127.5 Nicks him off! Slides it on a length outside off, drifting away a touch, and takes the outside edge as Seales goes back to defend. Blundell gobbles it up, and Seales' resistance is over. Actually, scratch that. A replay shows that Ajaz got that to clip the off-stump, so he actually was bowled before he was caught! 419/9
    128.2 Rae wraps it up! Full outside off, shaping away a touch and Roach is caught on the crease. Rae finds the outside edge and Blundell makes no mistake. It's been a good fight shown by West Indies, but it is over for this innings, as they are bowled out for 420 420/10
    Extras
    36 (b 1, lb 12, nb 2, w 21)
    TOTAL
    420 all out (128.2 Overs, RR: 3.27, 520 minutes)
    Fall of wickets: 1-111 (John Campbell, 24.6 ov), 2-140 (Brandon King, 34.1 ov), 3-206 (Tevin Imlach, 55.2 ov), 4-267 (Alick Athanaze, 71.4 ov), 5-348 (Justin Greaves, 94.4 ov), 6-351 (Roston Chase, 97.1 ov), 7-386 (Anderson Phillip, 114.3 ov), 8-390 (Shai Hope, 116.2 ov), 9-419 (Jayden Seales, 127.5 ov), 10-420 (Kemar Roach, 128.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    JA Duffy3588642.4522
    ZG Foulkes2048204.120
    MD Rae21.218924.1710
    AY Patel41511332.7500
    GD Phillips802803.500
    DJ Mitchell3191300
  • BATSMEN
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    47.5 Jayden Seales with another beauty of a catch! Latham dances out of the crease to this full ball outside off. Doesn't quite get to the pitch of it as he swings it over midwicket. Seales, out in the deep, runs to his right and dives to complete a stunner. Williamson and Latham have a chat. What's the decision? And New Zealand will continue to bat 234/2
    39.3 Rocks back for the pull, and has Seales managed to catch this? Half-tracker and Conway pulls it to deep midwicket's left. Seales runs and grabs it above his head, tosses the ball up with momentum taking him over the rope and comes back to complete the catch. A magnificent batting effort, all through the game, comes to an end 192/1
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    Extras
    19 (b 1, lb 8, nb 5, w 5)
    TOTAL
    306/2d (54 Overs, RR: 5.66, 232 minutes)
    Fall of wickets: 1-192 (Devon Conway, 39.3 ov), 2-234 (Tom Latham, 47.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    JNT Seales90360403
    A Phillip905706.3312
    JP Greaves60180300
    RL Chase13010608.1540
    KAR Hodge1718024.700
  • BATSMEN
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    33.4 Both openers fall in the space of five balls! Campbell looks to take on Ajaz Patel, who tosses it up and invites the big shot. He gets it high but not far enough, because it's GP tracking back from mid-on and he somehow always gets there! A much tougher chance than his previous catch, and once again, Phillips is a reliable pair of hands once he gets under the ball 87/2
    32.5 That's such a soft dismissal to give New Zealand the first breakthrough! Or maybe not so soft. It's a good short ball angled at the body and it rises on King, who is on his toes and looking to fend it down. The ball pops up off his gloves towards slip and gully and Glenn Phillips, running in from gully, doesn't drop chances that easy. 87/1
    35.4 What a catch and Ajaz has another! Rachin Ravindra with some great reflexes there at short leg. Full around leg and Hodge presses forward and then goes back to parry it to the leg side. The ball pings the inside half and flies to Rachin's left and he sticks out a hand to parry it in the air and then dives to complete the catch. Unbeaten centurion in one innings, gone for a duck in the next 88/3
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    59.6 kicks away a full toss outside off, there's a big debate about DRS out there and they've gone up for it with one second remaining. Feels like it was wide. Ooh actually that looks close. Ajaz's angle from around the wicket and Hope's completely defensive mindset might have combined for a wicket here. Hit full on the toe. Maybe on a fifth stump line. Waiting on ball-tracking. Still waiting. Still waiting. The game's ground to a standstiff while we wait for the tech. THREE REDS! Hope's vigil ends. Kicking balls away worked when Ajaz was bowling over the wicket. Having shifted around, this strategy carried risk. NZ forced him into kicking it away by crowding him with close catchers. Two silly points lying in wait for even the fully controlled defensive shot. 107/7
    38.2 Nicks off and New Zealand are getting wickets in a heap here! He went short last ball and now Duffy pitches it up, wobble seam, and the ball seams away as Athanaze looks to drive and gets an edge behind 91/4
    42.2 Edge is snaffled up and Duffy levels with Hadlee for most international wickets in a calendar year for New Zealand Length ball outside off lifts sharply and hits the outside edge of the bat near the sticker. Mitchell goes low to his right and the ball drops into his palms. Out of nowhere, West Indies have lost half their side! And that's the 20th wicket this series for Jacob Duffy 98/5
    50.6 unplayable! Chase is not in form but even if he were, there is no way he would've coped with this. Duffy - 900 balls into his work in this series - keeps gathering steam. His bouncer is spot on. Targeting the left shoulder of the right-hander, getting a little bit of extra bounce from a fifth-day surface. Chase gets his hands up, wanting to protect himself, and it pops off the glove to Latham at second slip 104/6
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    64.3 And GP gets in on the action! Tossed up full outside off, it drifts away and spins in to beat the booming drive. Slight inside edge and the ball crashes into the stumps 112/8
    78.4 pins him lbw. Ravindra's habit of getting skid off the pitch works for NZ but we'll have to wait for the review. Good length ball on middle, forcing Phillip to go back in his crease, but in trying to hit across the line he leaves himself open to the lbw and it's plumb 138/9
    80.3 And Duffy wraps it up, completing his fifer and sealing a 2-0 series win for New Zealand. Doesn't take him more than three balls with the new ball to prise the final wicket. Lovely inswinger that comes in from a length outside off to go through the big gap between bat and pad and crashes into off stump. No one deserved to take the final wicket more than Duffy did, who has plugged away relentlessly! 138/10
    Extras
    16 (b 12, lb 1, w 3)
    TOTAL
    138 all out (80.3 Overs, RR: 1.71, 324 minutes)
    Fall of wickets: 1-87 (Brandon King, 32.5 ov), 2-87 (John Campbell, 33.4 ov), 3-88 (Kavem Hodge, 35.4 ov), 4-91 (Alick Athanaze, 38.2 ov), 5-98 (Justin Greaves, 42.2 ov), 6-104 (Roston Chase, 50.6 ov), 7-107 (Shai Hope, 59.6 ov), 8-112 (Kemar Roach, 64.3 ov), 9-138 (Anderson Phillip, 78.4 ov), 10-138 (Jayden Seales, 80.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    JA Duffy22.3104251.8620
    ZG Foulkes50200400
    AY Patel32212330.7100
    MD Rae1462601.8500
    GD Phillips521412.800
    R Ravindra2201000

Match Details

Toss

New Zealand , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

New Zealand won the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

11.00 start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00

Match days

18,19,20,21,22 December 2025 (5-day match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

New Zealand 12, West Indies 0

Close of Play

  • Thu, 18 Dec - day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 334/1 (DP Conway 178*, JA Duffy 9*, 90 ov)
  • Fri, 19 Dec - day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 110/0 (JD Campbell 45*, BA King 55*, 23 ov)
  • Sat, 20 Dec - day 3 - West Indies 1st innings 381/6 (KAR Hodge 109*, A Phillip 12*, 113 ov)
  • Sun, 21 Dec - day 4 - West Indies 2nd innings 43/0 (JD Campbell 2*, BA King 37*, 16 ov)
  • Mon, 22 Dec - day 5 - West Indies 2nd innings 138 (80.3 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

West Indies 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st87JD CampbellBA King
2nd0JD CampbellKAR Hodge
3rd1KAR HodgeSD Hope
4th3SD HopeA Athanaze
5th7JP GreavesSD Hope
6th6RL ChaseSD Hope
7th3SD HopeTA Imlach
8th5KAJ RoachTA Imlach
9th26A PhillipTA Imlach
10th0TA ImlachJNT Seales