West Indies take honours on the third day

DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Dec 13, 2008 - The West Indies won third day honours in the rain-hit first cricket Test here Saturday, taking New Zealand's last six wickets for 139 runs to dismiss the hosts for 365.

In reply the West Indies reached 39 without loss by stumps, with captain Chris Gayle on 29 and Sewnarine Chattergoon on nine.

With two days remaining, the chances of a result were fast receding after Friday was rained out and play was unable to start until mid-afternoon Saturday.

New Zealand were 226 for four when play got underway in cold conditions at University Oval with Jesse Ryder's 89 providing the highlight in the middle order after number three Daniel Flynn's 95 on Thursday. After reaching 54 on the first day, the usually aggressive Ryder struggled at times on the slow-paced wicket. But he still hit 12 fours in his four-and-a-quarter hours at the crease before falling 11 runs short of his first Test hundred by pulling Daren Powell to Shivnarine Chanderpaul at midwicket.

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 ht wicket b Edwards		 7
D. Vettori c Marshall b Powell		30
K. Mills lbw b Edwards 			12
M. Gillsepie not out			16
I. O’Brien c & b 			 4
EXTRAS (lb-16, w-9, nb-3)            	28
TOTAL (all out, 116 overs)         	365

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-10 (How), 2-97 (McIntosh), 3-128 (Taylor), 4-189 (Flynn), 5-278 (McCullum), 
6-289 (Franklin), 7-310 (Ryder), 8-327 (Vettori), 9-347 (Mills), 10-365 (O’Brien).
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 not out 		29
S. Chattergoon not out 		 9
EXTRAS (b-1)			 1
TOTAL (0 wickets, 14 overs)     39
BOWLING: Gillespie 5-1-19-0, Mills 5-0-14-0, O’Brien 2-1-4-0, Vettori 2-1-1-0.