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Sunday, July 29, 2012

C r i c H o t L i n e

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West Indies vs New Zealand 1st Test Post Match Presentation Antigua 2012

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT


Narine: It was a hard wicket and it was a batting paradise so you just had to bowl over and over again to try and make something happen. I think we have about three days before the next game so there is some time to recover. I saw that the wicket wasn’t helping me much so I just kept trying different variations with the seam.

Sunil Narine is the MoM

Sammy: I think the team is playing really well. The way we came out in this Test match was very nice, we played well on a hard wicket. The quality of bowling has been good on a difficult wicket. We stuck to our plans and in the end we were victorious. Credit must go to Chris and Powell, they put us in a good position with the way they batted. I keep asking Narine if he is ok with bowling so many overs but I guess he is just like Ravi and he wants to keep bowling. Ravi has a slight groin strain, but he was really fired up and he asked for one more over just when I was going to change the bowling and I had to extend his spell. It was good because it yielded a wicket for us.

Taylor: I thought we were in the game for parts of it but we didn’t bat as well as we should have and we didn’t take 20 wickets. Credit to West indies they played really well. I think the middle order struggled, we need to step up in the next game. We didn’t look like creating enough pressure and we let them score freely at over 5 an over. The pitch obviously was a good deck, you could tell by the amount of runs scored. We need to be smarter about the way we play and we will have to bowl in better areas.

West Indies vs New Zealand Day 5 Highlights 1st Test Antigua 2012

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT


West Indies vs New Zealand Day 5 Cricket Highlights 1st Test Antigua 2012. New Zealand vs West Indies Highlights 1st Test played at Antigua on 29 July 2012. Highlights of Day 5 New Zealand vs West Indies 1st Test 2012 posted here so stay tuned for all the update!

West Indies vs New Zealand Day 5 Highlights 1st Test will be posted here. Match scheduled to start at 14:00 GMT or 19:30 IST.

Part 1

Part 2 Onwards coming up

Check out the preview of 1st Test here and for live scores go here

New Zealand 199-3 at stumps Day 4 against Windies Antigua Test

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:18 PM PDT


Brendon McCullum struck 84 while opener Martin Guptill added 67 on Saturday as New Zealand batsmen led a spirited fightback on day four of the first cricket Test against the West Indies at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

The visitors, after conceding a first innings lead of 171, closed on 199 for 3 in the second innings, a lead of 28 heading into the final day. Ross Taylor (11 not out) and nightwatchman Neil Wagner (4 not out) survived to stumps.

Offspinner Sunil Narine claimed 2 for 67 while fast bowler Kemar Roach took 1 for 44 to lead the hosts.

Earlier, West Indies stretched their overnight 442 for 6 to 522 before being bowled out on the stroke of lunch.

Narsingh Deonarine compiled 79 while captain Darren Sammy supplied a breezy 50. Chris Martin led New Zealand with 3 for 134, while part-time offspinner Kane Williamson (2 for 47) and fellow pacer Doug Bracewell (2 for 96) also pitched in.

New Zealand began brightly as they approached the sizeable deficit in the second session, with Guptill and left-hander Daniel Flynn sharing a resolute opening stand of 47.

Flynn contributed 20 before he was deceived by Narine and plumb leg before on the back foot. Guptill and McCullum took the tourists to tea on 92 for 1 but the West Indies celebrated a key breakthrough in the first over after the resumption.

But the joy was shortlived as Guptill, who chipped Roach to short extra cover, was reprieved when TV replays confirmed it had been a no ball from the oft-penalized Roach.

Guptill, then on 42, coolly passed his second half-century of the match soon afterwards, off 115 balls, celebrating by driving Roach for a boundary through mid-off.

McCullum also began to blossom, striking off-spinner Marlon Samuels for three fours in an over that cost 18 runs. He, too, arrived at a fifty, off 92 balls, as the hosts began to look jaded on a flat pitch.

But West Indies managed to claim both batsmen in the final hour to keep its hopes of victory very much alive. Guptill, after hitting seven fours off 151 balls in 197 minutes, gloved a big-bouncing Narine off-break to Assad Fudadin at short leg at 170 for 2. His second wicket partnership with McCullum was worth 123 in two-and-a-half hours.

McCullum was closing in on a seventh Test century when he followed, dragging on a Roach delivery as he tried to force off the back foot. The right-hander cracked eight fours off 139 balls in just over three hours.

In the morning session, Deonarine and Sammy stretched their seventh-wicket stand to 69 as the West Indies consolidated their advantage from day three.

Deonarine struck ten fours and a six in a knock that spanned 129 balls and 224 minutes. Sammy added four fours and three sixes.

New Zealand finally broke through midway through the morning session and claimed the final four wickets for 25 runs. Deonarine, in his 13th Test, fell short of a maiden century dragging on from the inside edge as he played lazily at Chris Martin at 497 for 7.

Sunil Narine (4) was run out after a mix-up with Sammy at 502 for 8, Martin providing the return to wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk. Sammy got to his half century in grand style, launching Daniel Vettori over wide long-on for six but fell next ball trying to repeat the stroke. Vettori ran back 15 yards into the leg side to snare a fine return catch. Sammy faced 80 balls in 114 minutes.

Bracewell, armed with the third new ball, wrapped up the innings on the stroke of lunch, gaining an lbw verdict following the use of the Decision Review System against Ravi Rampaul.
Posted by MohammaD IsmaiL at 1:37 PM

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