Sulieman Benn starred with the ball as the West Indies claimed three wickets to have New Zealand struggling at 129 for four in their second innings at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test at Queen's Park Oval on Thursday. Having started their innings on the third afternoon with a first innings deficit of 239 runs, the Black Caps still need another 110 runs to make the home side bat again.
Benn, the gangling Barbadian left-arm spinner, dislodged Tom Latham for 36 to a catch at silly point for the first wicket of the day. While the obdurate opening batsman could claim to be undone by awkward bounce extracted out of the bowler's footmarks, there was nothing but the brilliance of Benn's catching off his own bowling to account for the demise of Jimmy Neesham just before the interval.
Looking to counter-attack the spinner with one of his trademark powerful off-drives, the left-hander stood in disbelief as Benn flung himself to his right to come up with the sensational catch, a dismissal that was celebrated by his team-mates in a manner to suggest that that they were almost as stunned as the batsman. In between those two wickets by the slow bowler, the persevering Kemar Roach seemed to be coming to the end of his spell but found a further lease of life when he had Kane Williamson caught behind for 52. The classy right-hander had played with admirable discipline in a 75-run second-wicket partnership with Latham and looked set to participate in another useful stand with new batsman Ross Taylor.
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