Jacob Duffy took 5-42 as New Zealand bowled out the West Indies for 138 on a deteriorating fifth-day pitch to win the third Test by 323 runs and take the three-match series 2-0.Duffy surpassed Richard Hadlee’s New Zealand record of wickets in a calendar year and finished the series with 23 at an average of 15.4 including three five-wicket hauls. He bowled more than 154 overs as the workhorse of the New Zealand attack in the three Tests.
“I saw that list at lunchtime and there were some cool names on there, so to be up there on any sort of list with those sort of names was special,” Duffy, who was voted Player of the Series, said of his bowling record.
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New Zealand’s win ended a series in which both teams had to cope with significantly depleted pace attacks and a slew of batting records fell.The West Indies were without Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph. Duffy became New Zealand’s pace spearhead after injuries sidelined Matt Henry, Will O’Rourke, Ben Sears, Kyle Jamieson, Nathan Smith and Blair Tickner.
The third Test was a feast for statisticians.
Devon Conway made 227 and Tom Latham 137 in a 323-run opening stand in New Zealand’s first innings of 575-8 declared.
Conway then made 100 and Latham 101 in a partnership of 192 in the second innings before New Zealand declared at 306-2, leaving West Indies a target of 462 to win after being bowled out for 420 in the first innings.Conway was the 10th Test player and first New Zealander to score a double-century and a century in the same match and he and Latham were the first openers to score centuries in both innings of a Test.
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