(Cricinfo) Henry Nicholls moved past 150 and found excellent lower-order support from Kyle Jamieson and Neil Wagner as New Zealand pushed towards a formidable first-innings total on a pitch that still has plenty to offer the fast bowlers. With the West Indies fielders continuing to put chances down, New Zealand added 128 runs at 5.12 an over during a punishing first session to go to lunch at 422 for 8.
Sixty-three of those runs came during an unbroken ninth-wicket stand between Nicholls and Wagner, the latter going after the predominantly short-ball tactics of the West Indies fast bowlers and rushing to 48 off 33 balls before the lunch interval interrupted his quest for a maiden Test-match fifty. It would be a most appropriate way for Wagner to celebrate his 50th Test.
