New Zealand 278 & 57-1 (Conway 28*, Williamson 16*, Phillip 1-17) beat West Indies 205 & 128 (Hodge 35, Greaves 25, Duffy 5-3 by nine wickets 

In the wake of batting 163.3 second-innings overs in the Christchurch Test six days ago, the West Indies faced a combined 121.2 overs across both their innings in Wellington as their helpless display was rewarded with a humiliating defeat before Tea on Day 3 of the second Test. 

Windies captain Roston Chase said, “The batting is a bit of a concern. We came here [after the first Test] and our batters never really capitalized.”

The Caribbean side began the day trailing New Zealand by 41 runs with eight wickets in hand. Kavem Hodge and Brandon King returned to see off an incident-free first half hour, adding 18 runs to West Indies’ overnight score of 32 for 2, before the latter was run-out for 22.

 A first-ball boundary and a few strikerotations later, Shai Hope (5) had presented a gift of a return-catch to Michael Rae in the same over. The West Indies found themselves with four wickets down while still 15 runs in the red. 

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Get a life Chase!!!! Trust the process!

VOR isn’t concerned like you, in fact he is in unprecedented glee that we are in a good position.

this loss feels like a winning draw

@CaribbeanCricket.com

Chase is the problem. He Left out Atheneze for Imlach. Secondly, Hodge did not ball a ball, the same way, in the first test He never Utilized Alick.

@Edrich

what? the hell 😂

@Edrich

Darren,

one day you will run out of people to blame

Chase needs to step up or step aside.

Imlach, as good a glove man as he is, the batting hasn't started well at this level, but he should get at least the next test anyway.

@WICFan

I think of far greater concern is when you have opening batsmen, top order batsmen and middle order batsmen all struggling mightily against a second string attack. Imlach has been great as a keeper, which is his primary role.

Campbell, Hodge, Chase & Athanaze have all had the opportunity to shine and managed barely 150 runs between them across 14 innings.

@4REALQUICKS

Out of those mentioned, Chase is the most obvious one to drop.

Despite his mixed returns, Hope stays at 4, as he has looked better without the gloves.

King, has been shuffled about the order and I would persevere for the time being.

Hodge, probably the best of the rest so I would play him at 5, ideally at some stage Wickham or Kevlon can come in at 5.

Campbell will always be a 20 something avg batsman, Tage probably the same as he just doesn't play enough scoring shots.

But who do you turn to, bring back KB, Mikyle Louis isn't good enough, do you throw a random pairing together like King and Athanaze.

I get what your saying about Imlach doing his primary role well, but that avg can't continue were it is at.

@Halliwell

😅

I'm 'concerned' about the batting of Chase. He doesn't seem to merit his place in the XI.

@4REALQUICKS

The problem with your statement is the reason that was given for dropping Josh was his batting average.

So staying with Imlach with his terrible batting numbers makes no sense whatsoever

If Chase were really concerned about West Indies' batting woes he would do the right thing and voluntee to drop himself.

As it stands, withh him in the side, we seem to have another passenger- captain on our hand andcforced to play one- short every game.

Whatever else might have been said about Sammy, our late, unlamented, passenger-captain , at least he was adept at clapping!!!

Well, the WI have many days to sort out their batting before the upcoming Test, it is disappointing that Chase cannot put together a respectable inning with the bat, it has to be bothering him. The bowling coach also should be working on Shields's bowling strategy, too many short-balls will not be effective when the NZ batters will be expecting it. Phillip showed that he should be the 1st choice back-up pacer, not Shields or Layne

@CaribbeanCricket.com

For starters, Chase is a component of the Batting debacle and should've the decency to drop-himself...😀

@Conorboy

There is no problem with the statement, rather, the problem lies in favouring a keeper who never takes the difficult chances such as those snaffled by Imlach just because he brings another 5-10 runs.

Da Silva as a batsman - and quite possibly captain - would have been my own preferred choice prior to the appointment of Chase. I like Roston but he is not a test cricketer.

Since Chase became captain, only three players have played every one of the 7 tests. Hope, Greaves and Chase. Since that time Hope has scored 2 centuries, Greaves a double century and captain Chase has not registered a 50. He should embarrass Sammy by faking an injury for the third test so his vice captain Warrican, who cannot even make the test team can come in and captain the team. See the problem Sammy and the board has us in?