New Zealand - West Indies 1st Test Ends in Draw After Rain

Dunedin: Rain forced the first test between New Zealand and West Indies to be abandoned as a draw after tea on the fifth and final day at University Oval in Dunedin on Saturday.

The Test ends in a draw and McCullum is still searching for his first Test win as a captain.

Man of the Match was New Zealand's Ross Taylor for his unbeaten knocks of 217 and 16

New Zealand were an agonising 33 runs when rain forced an early tea.

In a match which New Zealand should have wrapped up much earlier, they faltered spectacularly at the start of their second innings.

Set a meagre target of 112 to win, New Zealand slumped to be 44-4 before Ross Taylor and Corey Anderson mounted a rescue partnership.

When rain resulted in tea being taken five minutes early, New Zealand were 79-4 with Anderson on 20 and Taylor on 16.

Shane Shillingford did the damage for the West Indies with the spinner taking all the wickets to have figures of four for 26 off 15 overs.

He struck first in the last over before lunch when wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin snapped up a deft catch down the leg side to remove Peter Fulton.

Umpire Paul Reiffel turned down the appeal, but captain Darren Sammy went for a review which showed the New Zealand opener had a faint touch on the ball and the decision was overturned.

After lunch, Aaron Redmond (six) turned Shillingford into the hands of Narsingh Deonarine at leg slip and Hamish Rutherford (20) pulled the ball straight to Shannon Gabriel waiting at long on.

Brendon McCullum was unable to produce his century-making first-innings heroics as he miscued a sweep shot and top edged the ball to Ramdin to be gone for nine.

It was a performance far removed from the determination shown in their first innings, when New Zealand amassed 609-9 declared and then whittled the West Indies out for 213.

Forced to follow on the third day, the West Indies found a rock in Darren Bravo, who made a career best 218 in guiding the tourists to 507 and ensuring New Zealand would bat again.

Neil Wagner returned the best bowling figures for New Zealand with three for 112 while Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Ish Sodhi took two wickets apiece.

Brief scores
New Zealand 609 for 9 dec (Taylor 217*, McCullum 113, Best 3-148) and 79 for 4 (Shillingford 4-16)
West Indies 213 (Southee 4-52) and 507 (Bravo 218, Sammy 80, Wagner 3-112)
Result Drawn
MOM Ross Taylor (New Zealand)

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