WELLINGTON: A 136-run opening partnership by veteran Nathan Astle and newcomer Jamie How laid the foundations for an 81-run victory by New Zealand over the West Indies in their five-match, one-day series opener here yesterday.
The visitors’ poor one-day record stretched to 14 losses from their last 16 games as their pursuit of New Zealand’s 288 for nine foundered in the face of a tidy bowling display.
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