CRICKET: Vettori sparks recovery
West Indies 365 New Zealand 113-3
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Your support makes all the difference.WEST INDIES hit back after their last nine wickets tumbled for 76 runs against New Zealand on the second day of the first Test yesterday. The touring team collapsed from 289 for 1 to 365 all out but then broke through the New Zealand top order to leave the home side on 113 for 3 at stumps.
New Zealand responded to a demand from their coach, David Trist, to bowl themselves back into contention: "I told them they had to take the game by the scruff of the neck."
West Indies failed to capitalise on their record first-wicket stand against New Zealand of 276 by Sherwin Campbell (170) and Adrian Griffith (114), with only Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the captain Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams making it to double figures.
Chris Cairns and left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori were the pick of the New Zealand bowlers, with Vettori finishing with 4 for 83 off 34.1 overs.
Griffith's marathon innings, which included 10 fours and a six, ended when Vettori had him caught behind by wicketkeeper Adam Parore. Vettori, who turns 21 in January, took his Test haul to 87 wickets and will beat Kapil Dev's record as the youngest player to take 100 Test wickets if he can reach the mark by the end of the second Test.
Matthew Horne and Gary Stead took the home reply to 61 before Horne hooked Reon King and was caught at long leg by Franklyn Rose. Courtney Walsh then bowled Stead to claim his 424th Test wicket. Craig Spearman was beaten by a Dinanath Ramnarine googly.
Second day; West Indies won toss
WEST INDIES - First Innings
A F G Griffith c Parore b Vettori 114
S L Campbell c Parore b Nash 170
D Ramnarine c Parore b Cairns 8
S Chanderpaul c Fleming b Astle 14
*B C Lara c Nash b Vettori 24
R L Powell c Wiseman b Cairns 0
J C Adams not out 17
R D Jacobs c Spearman b Vettori 5
F A Rose c Wiseman b Cairns 4
R D King b Nash 1
C A Walsh b Vettori 0
Extras (lb6 nb2) 8
Total (135.1 overs) 365
Fall: 1-276, 2-289, 3-311, 4-336, 5-336, 6-336, 7-345, 8-352, 9-362, 10-365.
Bowling: Cairns 31-11-73-3; Nash 28-12-63-2; Vettori 34.1-9-83-4; Astle 16-2-67-1; Wiseman 22-10-51-0; McMillan 4-1-22-0.
NEW ZEALAND - First Innings.
G R Stead b Walsh 22
M J Horne c Rose b King 32
C M Spearman b Ramnarine 27
*S P Fleming not out 18
D L Vettori not out 5
Extras (nb5 b4) 9
Total (for 3, 44 overs) 113
Fall: 1-61, 2-67, 3-107.
Bowling: Walsh 14-2-38-1, Rose 13-3-29-0, Ramnarine 10-3-22-1, King 7- 0-20-1.
To bat: N J Astle, C D Millian, C L Cairns, A C Parore, D J Nash, P J Wiseman.
Umpires: D B Cowie and D R Shepherd (Eng).
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