2nd Test, Wellington

West Indies need a further 136 to avoid the follow on

with only two wickets in hand.

131 all out

Follow On Enforced

11.30am West Indies lost the first Test by an innings, and are staring at another similar result here.

They can't go into this innings with a negative mindset, though !!

244 - 6

Jason Holder 60*, Debutant Da Silva 25*

Campbell 68, Brooks 36, Blackwood 20

West Indies trail by 85 runs on the Follow On

Yet to bat: Alzarri Joseph, Shannon Gabriel, Chemar Holder

Stumps, Day 3 ~

Bad light and an unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 74 between Jason Holder and Joshua da Silva

have moved the Wellington Test into the fourth day

with West Indies following-on and still trailing by 85 runs.

When play resumes half an hour early on Monday, West Indies will know that the Basin Reserve

has seen plenty of epic third-innings rearguards in the last six years !!

da Silva - who often opens for Trinidad & Tobago in domestic cricket -

showed impressive technique and good composure,

seeming to have plenty of time to play both attacking and defensive shots,

moving confidently forward or back and getting into compact positions.

He ended the day batting on 25

Jason Holder was seldom troubled by this mode of attack, the lack of venom when the fast bowlers bowled short

which they did frequently with plenty of protection on the leg side with the ball usually either bouncing too high

to trouble him or not bouncing high enough

He hit eight fours and two sixes in scoring an unbeaten 60 off 89 balls

and eight of those ten boundaries came via the pull or the hook !

Da Silva joined Holder at 170 for 6 - New Zealand lead at that point was 159

- in the third over after tea and closed out the session and the day -

Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews against New Zealand in 2018.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sri-...-scorecard

Mendis 141, Matthews 120

Getting anywhere near the magnitude of this partnership of 274 runs :

Current P'SHIP: 74 runs, 17.3 ov (RR: 4.18)

will require something of a miracle from Holder and da Silva

BUT, miracles do happen !

Horrible

So much for a Miracle ! The Devil numbers : 666 !

66.6
Southee to Holder, OUT Beautiful delivery that has Holder playing down the wrong line.
Full just outside off, and Holder is looking to defend down middle and off,
but the ball goes past his outside edge and pegs off stump back.

JO Holder b Southee 61 (93b 8x4 2x6) SR: 65.59