PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – West Indies lost the toss and chose to field against New Zealand on the opening day of the second Test on Monday at Queen’s Park Oval here.
The Windies have made three changes, bringing opener Kraigg Brathwaite, batsman Jermaine Blackwood and fast bowler Shannon Gabriel in to replace Kieran Powell, Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford.
● Off-spinner Shillingford has a sore Achilles and misses this Test
● Blackwood makes his Test debut, becoming the 298th player to wear the Windies’ maroon cap. He was presented with his Test cap by batting legend Brian Lara just before the players took the field.
The hosts trail 0-1 in the three-Test series, following a 186-run defeat in the first Test which ended inside four days last Wednesday at Sabina Park in Jamaica.
Team (batting order, surnames capitalised)
1. Chris GAYLE
2. Kraigg BRATHWAITE
3. Kirk EDWARDS
4. Darren BRAVO
5. Shivnarine CHANDERPAUL
6. Jermaine BLACKWOOD
7. Denesh RAMDIN (captain/wicketkeeper)
8. Kemar ROACH
9. Jerome TAYLOR
10. Sulieman BENN
11. Shannon GABRIEL
Reserve players
Jason HOLDER
Leon JOHNSON
Shane SHILLINGFORD
NEW ZEALAND: Hamish Rutherford, Tom Latham, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCullum (captain), James Neesham, Bradley-John Watling (wicketkeeper), Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Mark Craig, Trent Boult
Reserve players: Craig Anderson, Peter Fulton, Luke Ronchi, Neil Wagner
UMPIRES: Rod Tucker (Australia), Ian Gould (England)
TV REPLAYS UMPIRE: Richard Illingworth (England)
MATCH REFEREE: Chris Broad (England)
FOURTH UMPIRE: Peter Nero (Trinidad & Tobago)
