Andrew Alderson: Live report from third Black Caps v West Indies test

Sports journalist Andrew Alderson reports live from the Bay Oval cricket ground in Mount Manganui, about the third Test Match between the Black Caps and West Indies.

Which side is looking stronger? And, what changes the West Indies have made to boost their batting confidence?

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
News Talks ABN Weekend Sport eleven away from one. Let's
get you to bay Ovall, where we're approaching lunch on
the third day of the third Test between the black
Caps in the West Indies. The Western is resuming one
hundred and ten without loss. They've just gone to one
hundred and ninety five for two. Andrew Ordison can update it, sir,
who's won this first session?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Orders greeting's pinety. Look, I think it's fearly even I
mean New Zealand. We've pleased to get those two wickets,
Jacob Duffy getting both of them with John Campbell caught
it by Tom Lake and the second slip for forty
five and Brandon King making sixty three before his bowl
by Duffy. Spit on at both ends now but no
further wickets I think, probably in the West Indies favor.

(00:53):
And it looks good to bat on this wicket at
the present time, as you'd expect from a third day pitch,
and also the footmarks not particularly impressive so far from
a New Zealand perspective, probably more a Cinderella type footmark
rather than is aa sasquatch if you want to make
some comparisons there piney. But they'll be looking to build

(01:14):
on those and one of those factors is actually having
Zach folks coming around the wicket at the city end
to try and build that up. But we'll wait and
see if that progresses over the course of the day
and onward beyond that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ajaz Battel is in the side of course, looking for
that a looser first Test wicket on home soil, eighty
five of them offshore, none on home soil. Yet how
big a part has he played this morning? How big
a role mighty play in this Test match for New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think the answer there is very little for today.
Hasn't looked really effective so far, but I think across
the course of the Test match, yes, he will go
on to really make his mark. I mean he's a
tidy bowls. We see him and from the city end
now and I look at his record at this ground.
I think he's taken twenty four wickets in six matches.

(02:02):
He's averaging twenty four point nine to one, so he
knows how to do it. As games go on at
Bayo will Jacob Duffy another who's impressive at this venue
twenty three weeks at seventeen point eight from five matches,
so they do know how to do it to these
New Zealand bowlers at the venue. So we'll see how
that progresses.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
So New Zealand declared yesterday five seventy five for eight.
I guess when they declared their idea was we only
bat once in this Test match. So if the Western
News can get through to three hundred and seventy six,
they'll avoid that. Follow on if they were to get
to three seven six, Is there a result possible in
this Test match?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I think there is as the pitch deteriorates further. But
at this stage the Western is looking well, I think
as comfortable as we've seen them since Christ Here at
least they've still got the batting lineup they've got. They
haven't got Shay Hope yet, mom, he's got some sort
of undefined or uncalled illness at the moment. He was
off the field yesterday, so he can only come in

(03:00):
at seven all below. But we have seen this beanning
lineup but deliver on occasion and in Hope there's a
key part of that, but at this point with Hodge
the on forty seven, in Mark who's moved up from
number seven into the number four spot on twenty five
looking relatively coulptable, and we know what Justin Graves can
produce with that double century in christ Church emmy stage

(03:22):
in a Test match. And yeah, speaking of this thing
raises in the press conference, I think there's a degree
of confidence in the West Indies.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Lineup indeed, and they're batting in that fashion. Thanks orders,
enjoy the remainder of the session, a bit of lunch
and we'll catch you in the middle session of that
suits your you're very busy schedule at the bay.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Looking forward to actually pinty. Just one other highlight was
the Grinch came and swept the pitch here, so getting
into the Christmas spirits, you might say, I did think
that was a nice touch from the bay Able staff,
but gave it a jolly good sweep. And know that
salty air coming across the mountain here very seasonal.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Go on your orders, thanks mate. Andrew Ordison, reporting live
from Bay Oval, a third day of the Third Test.
The Western is one ninety nine for two.

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