Venue: Saxton Oval, Nelson

New Zealand (Playing XI):

Devon Conway(w), Tim Robinson, Rachin Ravindra, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner(c), Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy

West Indies (Playing XI):

Alick Athanaze, Amir Jangoo, Shai Hope(w/c), Sherfane Rutherford, Ackeem Auguste, Roston Chase, Rovman Powell, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Matthew Forde, Shamar Springer

@Narper

As you enjoy 30°C, we are zero degrees Celsius tonight, and 10 cm of snow has fallen.

Gotta get out that snow shovel and snow blower.

I wasn't expecting this storm. I was going to adjust the snowblowers this week, but I have no rock salt either. In trouble... 😵

New Zealand have won the toss and have opted to field

Both teams make one change. Roston Chase comes in for Akeal Hosein. For the hosts, Mark Chapman replaces Mitchell Hay.

Shai Hope: It's a decent wicket. We have to bat well. We have the batting depth.

Mitchell Santner: We are going to bowl first. Overhead, it's going to swing around, potential rain as well. We have done a lot of good stuff. We've come up against a very good team

@Narper

come allyuh 230 runs needed

@sgtdjones

😀..Enjoy it my boy

Down here way too hot...next weekend I will be back...to enjoy de cold

Now they have dodgy weather

Pitch Report | Frankie Mackay and Shane Bond: 

Slightly different day, overcast skies. We are on the same pitch. 75m down the ground, 65m and 68m square boundaries. Great wicket yesterday, even better today. Little bit dry today. Plenty of runs on this wicket. The NZ spinners looked to turn the ball and attacked the wickets. It'd turn a little bit as the innings goes on. Really good batting conditions. Light grass cover. It's a 200-210 wicket. Good day to be a batter and good toss to lose probably for West Indies.

Jangoo and Athanaze are at the crease.

Jangoo is on strike.

Jamieson will open the attack

WI 3-0(1) CRR:3

Amir Jangoo 2(5)

Alick Athanaze 1(1

WI 5-0(2) CRR:2.5

Alick Athanaze 2(4)

Amir Jangoo 3(

2.2

4

Jamieson to Athanaze, FOUR, first boundary of the innings. 128.7kph, Athanaze shimmies down, moves leg-side and slaps it hard along the ground to the left of the diving wide-ish mid-off fielder

2.5

6

Jamieson to Athanaze, SIX, 127kph, full delivery marginally outside off, Athanaze walks across and brings his wrists into play to whip it away over deep backward square leg.

WI 17-0(3) CRR:5.67

Alick Athanaze 13(10)

Amir Jangoo 3(

3.4

6

Jacob Duffy to Athanaze, SIX, 136.8kph, short ball, Athanaze spots the length early and dispatches this chest-high delivery

WI 25-0(4) CRR:6.25

Amir Jangoo 3(9)

Alick Athanaze 20(15)

Rain

4.6

4

Michael Bracewell to Jangoo, FOUR, 83.9kph, sliding onto the pads, Jangoo tickles it fine. Sodhi gives the chase from short fine leg

13:37 Local Time, 00:37 GMT, 06:07 IST:

 Rain stops play. It has been drizzling since the 1st over but it's heavier now.

@Chrissy

Good news. It has stopped raining and play is set to resume in 10 minutes 

@shivnotout

5.2

W

Neesham to Athanaze, out Caught by Mitchell!! Neesham strikes second ball. He goes fuller, Athanaze looks to loft it downtown but the timing goes awry as the bat turns at the point of impact. Goes a long way up in the air and Mitchell stays side-on as he runs back from mid-off. Makes a tough catch look easy and New Zealand have the breakthrough.

Athanaze c Mitchell b Neesham 21(1 [4s-1 6s-2]

5.6

4

Neesham to Jangoo, FOUR, overpitched outside off and Jangoo leans forward to batter the drive through cover-point. A boundary to end the powerplay but New Zealand will be the happier side

14:17 Local Time, 01:17 GMT, 06:47 IST:

Hope jogs off the field with a smile on his face. Santner has a word with umpire Wayne Knights. And the groundsmen bring on the covers as the rain has intensified. We already lost half an hour to rain and we'll start to lose overs now.

Rain stops play

WI 38-1(6.3) CRR:5.85

Amir Jangoo 12(1

Shai Hop 3(3)

@Narper

Relief.

Losing streak broken.

@Drapsey

Or delayed?

No result - due to rain

Shai Hope: 

We didn't really get a chance to get out there and maximise in this game, but we've still got a chance to level the series and that's our main focus for the next one. I was looking forward to this one, especially coming from Bangladesh. You'd expect a little bit better surface here in New Zealand. It's just about us trying to progress as a team. It's great to see the fight that we've been showing. Unfortunately, we didn't win those last two games. But every time you put yourself in this position, you've obviously got a chance to win. So I'm very happy with the progress that we're making.

Mitch Santner:

With the overcast conditions, it's quite nice. The ball was swinging a bit. I guess the pitch being under cover a little bit as well. The more you put yourself in these positions, the more you're going to learn from it. Obviously, nice to be on the right side of a couple. There's learnings in both games for both teams. We go to Dunedin, like you said, it's probably going to be a bit colder. But, probably another good surface and probably another good match, to be fair.