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Monday, July 21, 2025

Rain puts a damper on Windies reply

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There is a say­ing in the Caribbean that once you want rain, put stumps in the ground. Bar­ba­dos has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing one of the dri­est spells in their his­to­ry but all that came to an end yes­ter­day be­cause the grounds­men in­sert­ed stumps in­to the turf at Kens­ing­ton Oval.The West In­dies re­ply­ing to New Zealand's first in­nings ef­fort of 293 all out, were 169 for two–124 runs be­hind with eight wick­ets in hand. The rain made an ap­pear­ance at 1.03 pm and al­though it did not fall heav­i­ly, it driz­zled un­til play was of­fi­cial­ly called off at 4.30 pm. It means that the Test will start off at 9.30 am for the next three days in or­der to make up for the lost time.

Re­turn­ing to­day will be Kirk Ed­wards who is not out on 42 off 64 balls with four fours and a six and with him is Dar­ren Bra­vo on eight.The West In­dies re­sumed on the bed­time score of 32 with­out loss and con­tin­ued to be watch­ful, play­ing each ball on mer­it. Kriagg Brath­waite was will­ing to play shots and looked good, while Gayle was his usu­al self.The two brought up the fifty off 14 overs with­out alarm and con­tin­ued on to 79, when on the stroke of the first hour's play, Gayle had enough. The big Ja­maican fell to a ski­er and was well tak­en by Hamish Ruther­ford af­ter Mark Craig tossed one up. His 42 was com­piled off 53 balls, six of which he sent rolling over the ropes and one fly­ing over.

Ed­wards came in and con­tin­ued where he left off in Trinidad. On that oc­ca­sion he slammed a rapid half cen­tu­ry and it was not­ed by Dar­ren Bra­vo that this in­nings changed the course of the West In­dies bat­ting for the se­ries.The right-hand­ed Bar­ba­di­an played pos­i­tive­ly and was in the com­pa­ny of Brath­waite when he post­ed his sixth half cen­tu­ry in Test crick­et. It came up in 114 min­utes off 95 balls eight fours.The lo­cal boys, two of five Bar­ba­di­ans in this squad, car­ried the score to 153 when Brath­waite, with a cen­tu­ry in sight had a soft dis­missal. He drove up­pish­ly to Tim Southee at cov­er off Neil Wag­n­er. His fi­nal fig­ures read 68 runs, off 116 balls with ten fours. His part­ner­ship with Ed­wards re­alised 74 runs off just 12.3 overs.

Score­board

SCORE­BOARD

WI vs N Zealand

N Zealand 1st Inns 293

Windies 1st Inns

(overnight 32/0)

C Gayle c Ruther­ford b Craig 42

K Brath­waite c Southee

b Wag­n­er 68

K Ed­wards not out 42

D Bra­vo not out 8

Ex­tras b1, lb2, w5, nb1 9

To­tal for 2 wk­ts 169

Fall of wk­ts: 79, 153.

Bowl­ing: T Boult 10�3�38�0 (1nb, 1w), T Southee 10�2�43�0, M Craig 13�2�63�1, N Wag­n­er 7.2�3�11�1, K Williamson 2�0�11�0.

Soon af­ter the lunch van pulled up with the score at 159 for two–rep­re­sent­ing a morn­ing ses­sion where 127 runs came for the loss of two wick­ets. Ed­wards was un­beat­en on 41 and with him dis­cussing the lunch menu as they walked off was Dar­ren Bra­vo yet to score.


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