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11/19 04:12 CST With a rare century opening stand, New Zealand beats West
Indies by 5 wickets in 2nd ODI
With a rare century opening stand, New Zealand beats West Indies by 5 wickets
in 2nd ODI
NAPIER, New Zealand (AP) --- A rare century partnership between Devon Conway
and Rachin Ravindra was the cornerstone Wednesday to New Zealand's five-wicket
win over the West Indies in the second one-day international.
New Zealand holds an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series ahead of the final
match on Saturday, it's 11th consecutive series win at home.
Shai Hope made a century from 67 balls and led West Indies to 247-9 as it
batted first after losing the toss.
Hope surpassed 6,000 ODI runs early in his innings, and with his first hundred
against New Zealand completed a full set of centuries against all test-playing
nations. He is the second-fastest West Indies batter to reach 6,000 runs after
Viv Richards.
"I always look at it this way, I got 109. It was still not enough," said Hope
whose century was the fifth fastest by a West Indies batter in ODIs.
"I needed to get 120 or 130 for us to win. That's how I look at it."
Conway made 90 from 84 balls and Ravindra 56 from 46 deliveries, sharing a
partnership of 106 from 100 balls in a match shortened by rain to 34 overs per
side. It was the first century partnership by a New Zealand opening pair in 73
matches over five years.
Tom Latham then made 39 from 29 balls and Mitchell Santner 34 from 15 as New
Zealand reached 248-5 with three balls remaining.
New Zealand needed 8 runs from the last over and were helped when Jayden Seales
conceded a four second ball from a no ball.
Earlier, Hope reached 90 from 62 balls but was stranded for almost three overs
on that score as he ran out of partners,
Shamar Springer was out to the first ball of the last over, leaving Hope off
strike and the West Indies 235-9. But Seales hurried through for a single and
Hope hit the next ball from Kyle Jamieson for six to complete his century, with
13 fours and four sixes.
Rain delayed the start of play by three hours. New Zealand won the toss and the
match began in humid conditions in which the ball swung significantly early on.
Scoring was difficult when bowlers kept a full length and denied batters width.
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