{"id":21504,"date":"2025-12-22T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/new-zealand-seal-2-0-series-win-after-duffy-patel-rout-west-indies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:32","slug":"new-zealand-seal-2-0-series-win-after-duffy-patel-rout-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/new-zealand-seal-2-0-series-win-after-duffy-patel-rout-west-indies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand seal 2-0 series win after Duffy, Patel rout West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fast bowler Jacob Duffy and spinner Ajaz Patel routed West Indies as New Zealand won the third and final test by 323 runs to complete a 2-0 series victory in Mount Maunganui on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The hosts were in the box seat since taking a first-innings lead of 155, and few expected West Indies to succeed in their pursuit of a record victory target of 462.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Duffy claimed 5-42 and Patel returned figures of 3-23 as New Zealand bundled out West Indies for 138 in the final session of the test match at Bay Oval.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Opener Brandon King made 67, but once he fell after his opening stand of 87 with John Campbell, it was a relentless\u00a0procession of West Indies batsmen returning to the pavilion at Bay Oval. Campbell&#8217;s laboured 16 was the next best score in a sorry-looking West Indies scorecard.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>New Zealand jumped to second place, behind Australia, in the World Test Championship (WTC) standings following their victory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It was a clinical performance, really,&#8221; New Zealand captain Tom Latham said at the presentation ceremony.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Take away maybe 20-odd overs with the ball in that first innings and I thought throughout the rest of the game, we were exactly where we wanted to be.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;And obviously being on the right side is really pleasing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was a memorable match for the New Zealand captain, who followed his 137 in the first innings with 101 in the second.<\/div>\n<div>His opening partner Devon Conway&#8217;s scores of 227 and 100 earned him the player-of-the-match award.<\/div>\n<div>It was the first time in a test match that a team&#8217;s opening batters each hit centuries in both innings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Duffy walked away with the player-of-the-series award for his tally of 23 wickets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>West Indies showed some resistance in the first innings when Kavem Hodge&#8217;s hundred powered them to a respectable 420.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It has been a tough series. We played good in patches but not through long phases and it showed in the results,&#8221; touring captain Roston Chase said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I think we need to firstly know when those moments are up for grabs, and then obviously, to nail those moments, to win those key moments in the game. I just think that&#8217;s something that we have to learn to do.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20498,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21504","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The hosts were in the box seat since taking a first-innings lead of 155.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The hosts were in the box seat since taking a first-innings lead of 155.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25147,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21504\/revisions\/25147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}