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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
WATCH: Blackcaps take ten wickets on Day 5 to secure Test victory over West Indies
Logan Swinkels • December 22nd, 2025 9:09 pm
Photo: Andrew Cornaga/Photosport
The Blackcaps were facing another drawn Test against the West Indies.
Plenty of runs were being scored in the first four days of the third Test, but wickets proved hard to come by for both sides.
New Zealand was 575/8d in the first innings after captain Tom Latham won the toss and decided to bat, the Windies responded with 420.
Just before lunch on Day 4, the Blackcaps went back out to bat, scoring another 306/2d to set a mammoth target of 462 runs as the penultimate day neared its end.
But with the cracks on the Bay Oval pitch becoming more pronounced on Day 5, gone was the batter's paradise seen earlier in the match, and perhaps a chance for the likes of frontline spinner Ajaz Patel to shine - or for Jacob Duffy to take more wickets and overtake Sir Richard Hadlee for the most wickets taken in a single calendar year across all formats.
The visitors required 419 runs on the final day, the Blackcaps needed 10 wickets.
Live from Mount Maunganui, Sport Nation's award-winning commentary team brought to life the sounds of summer with the Blackcaps one more time for 2025.
The visitors required 419 runs on the final day, the Blackcaps needed 10 wickets.
Live from Mount Maunganui, Sport Nation's award-winning commentary team brought to life the sounds of summer with the Blackcaps one more time for 2025.
Featuring ball-by-ball callers Daniel McHardy, Tom Bartlett and Garth Gallaway, plus experts Ian Smith, Jeremy Coney and Emily Drumm.
Watch the commentary box highlights below from the deciding day:
10 wickets fall on Day 5 for the Blackcaps to claim Test series victory over West Indies | Sport Nation Cricket
