Tea New Zealand 76 for 2 (Williamson 34*, Taylor 15*) trail West Indies 367 (Chanderpaul 122*, Ramdin 107, Southee 4-79) by 291 runs
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West Indies threw New Zealand their stiffest challenge of the series. First, their last two wickets added 60 to stretch the innings to 367. And then, their bowlers tied down the New Zealand top order in batting-friendly conditions. Hamish Rutherford fell to his own premature exuberance and Peter Fulton went in Sunil Narine's first over after failing to rotate the strike for an hour and a half.
Playing two specialist spinners, West Indies had to open the bowling with Darren Sammy's medium pace from one end, but the captain stuck to what he does usually, holding one end up and taking the odd wicket. He also caught brilliantly, both wickets owing more to his own brilliance in the field than the quality of the deliveries.
He first bent low in his followthrough to pluck a low catch as Rutherford drove hard in the sixth over. In the 22nd over, he snapped up an extremely sharp reflex chance at backward short leg as Fulton flicked Narine. Fulton batted 71 deliveries to make just 11. While he left well, he hit deliveries hard and straight to the fielders.
Williamson wasn't free-flowing as well in the company of Fulton, but opened up as Ross Taylor came in. Both batsmen looked to take singles, and their stand had grown to 33 by the tea break in just under ten overs. It was not without alarms against the spinners, though. Taylor survived a review for leg-before by West Indies off Narine, and Williamson escaped a few times, uppishly driving Veerasammy Permaul.
In the morning, Shivnarine Chanderpaul equalled Don Bradman's 29 Test centuries, went past Allan Border's tally of 11174 runs and remained unbeaten for the 45th time in 260 innings. Tino Best and Permaul contributed twenties to push West Indies past 350, a mark that had seemed unimaginable at 86 for 5 on the first afternoon.
New Zealand could have ended the innings on 339, but Fulton dropped Best in the slips off Corey Anderson, another blot on the hosts' catching in this game. Best was on 4 then, and went on to make 25, his innings a mix of typical slogs and unusually sensible batting, before edging a heave to the wicketkeeper off legspinner Ish Sodhi in the 117th over.
Permaul clubbed a run-a-ball 20, lofting and pulling Tim Southee for a six and a four off consecutive deliveries. Even as Brendon McCullum spread the field, Southee held his nerve to pitch another one up and Permaul, trying to hit a third successive boundary, edged a sharp catch to Fulton.
The efforts of Nos 10 and 11, along with the indefatigable Chanderpaul, turned around a poor morning start for West Indies. Southee began with his outswingers on target, getting Sammy to nick behind in the sixth over of the day. Sammy blocked his way to 3 off 28, following from his pair in a day in Wellington. But in the second session, he made some amends.
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