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Ryder props up New Zealand

DUNEDIN: Jesse Ryder made 89 while West Indies quicks Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards shared six wickets as New Zealand’s heavily disrupted third innings reached 365 on day three of the first Test on Saturday.

New Zealand resumed on its first day total of 226 for four, having lost the equivalent of five intervening sessions to rain and bad light, and pushed on to 365 thanks to Ryder and some mild late order resistance.

At stumps, delayed until 8 p.m., the West Indies was 39 for no loss in reply, with Chris Gayle 29 not out and Sewnarine Chattergoon on 9.

Ryder came within two runs of his highest Test score, in sight of a maiden Test century before falling to Powell and to one of the ill-judged shots which has marred his short Test career.

He passed through alternate periods of command and uncertainty before playing a wooden pull shot which scooped the ball from Powell to Shivnarine Chanderpaul at square leg. Ryder batted for over four hours and hit 12 fours, including several sweetly timed cover drives.

Powell (three for 68) claimed New Zealand’s first wicket on the opening day and returned in damaging spells on Saturday to dismiss Ryder and Daniel Vettori (30), New Zealand’s last specialist batsman.

Edwards (three for 91) bowled poorly on the first day but became more effective with the second new ball, capturing the wickets of James Franklin (7), Kyle Mills (12) and Iain O’Brien (4) to wrap up the New Zealand tail.

Chris Gayle took three for 42 and Daniel Flynn made 95 on the distant first day, cut short by bad light and separated from Saturday’s events by an entire day lost to rain.

Damp ground conditions prevented play in the morning session on Saturday, compounding problems caused on the first two days by rain and bad light.

Four decisions — three by the West Indies and one by New Zealand — were referred to television umpire Rudi Koertzen on Saturday under the Umpiring Referral System being tried in this series. — AP

SCOREBOARD

New Zealand — 1st innings: T. McIntosh c Baker b Gayle 34, J. How c Chanderpaul b Powell 10, D. Flynn lbw b Gayle 95, R. Taylor c Marshall b Gayle 15, J. Ryder c Chanderpaul b Powell 89, B. McCullum c Ramdin b Taylor 25, J. Franklin hit wicket b Edwards 7, D. Vettori c Marshall b Powell 30, K. Mills lbw b Edwards 12, M. Gillespie (not out) 16, I. O’Brien c and b Edwards 4; Extras (lb-16, w-9, nb-3): 28; Total (116 overs): 365.

Fall of wickets: 1-10 2-97 3-128 4-189 5-278 6-289 7-310 8-327 9-347.

West Indies bowling: Taylor 23-7-61-1, Powell 24-7-68-3, Edwards 22-4-91-3, Baker 25-3-85-0, Gayle 21-2-42-3, Nash 1-0-2-0.

West Indies — 1st innings: C. Gayle (batting) 29, S. Chattergoon (batting) 9, Extras (b-1) 1;;Total (for no loss, 14 overs): 39.

New Zealand bowling: Gillespie 5-1-19-0, Mills 5-0-14-0, O’Brien 2-1-4-0, Vettori 2-1-1-0.

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