Rain Calls-off Day's Play Early in Jamaica

Trelawny: The Blackcaps made 203 (declared) before rain called off the last session on the first day of the three day warm-up match against a Jamaican XI at Trelawny.

After winning the toss, the young pair of Tom Latham and Hamish Rutherford opened the batting but sadly didn't last long with Latham caught at mid-off for 16 and Rutherford going soon after lbw for 10.

Kane Williamson, straight from English county cricket, and Ross Taylor, fresh from his stint in the IPL, saw the visitors through to 73-2 at lunch. Not long after the break there was a mini collapse with Williamson going lbw three runs short of his half century and Taylor chopping on for 23, while opener Peter Fulton, batting at five, went without scoring.

BJ Watling put up the best middle order resistance with 30 before he was beaten by spin, while Jimmy Neesham (28*) and Ish Sodhi (21*) fought hard for the last wicket.

With the Blackcaps heading out to bowl, the heavens in Trelawny opened and heavy rain stopped play. Just before 5pm play was called off for the day with the visitors not having bowled a ball.

Blackcaps Head Coach Mike Hesson said there were a lot of starts today but he would have liked to have seen some of those players go on to bigger scores.

After this match, the Blackcaps head to Kingston for the first Test starting on Sunday at 10am Jamaican time (3am Monday 9 June NZ time).

Brief scores
Blackcaps 203-9 (Williamson 47, Watling 30, Neesham 28*)

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