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West Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 2008–09
	New Zealand	West Indies
Dates	5 December 2008 – 13 January 2009
Captains	Daniel Vettori	Chris Gayle
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 0–0
Most runs	Jesse Ryder (205)	Chris Gayle (305)
Most wickets	Daniel Vettori (10)	Fidel Edwards (11)
One Day International series
Results	New Zealand won the 5-match series 2–1
Most runs	Ross Taylor (187)	Chris Gayle (260)
Most wickets	Kyle Mills (7)	Daren Powell (7)
Twenty20 International series
Results	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Jesse Ryder (74)	Chris Gayle (68)
Most wickets	Daniel Vettori (5)	Chris Gayle (4)

The West Indies cricket team toured New Zealand between 5 December 2008, and 13 January 2009. They played two Test matches, two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the hosts, plus a three-day match against State Championship side Auckland. This was the first series between the sides since the West Indies toured New Zealand in 2005–06; their previous meeting was in the Super 8 stage of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand side had just returned from the first leg of a tour to Australia where they played two Test matches against the hosts, losing both. Prior to the second test against Australia, Andy Moles was announced as the replacement for retiring New Zealand coach John Bracewell with the West Indian series to be his first in charge of the team. One of his first moves was to replace a number of support staff and insist that he and captain Daniel Vettori be "the only voices in the dressing room". He also switched the roles of batsmen Daniel Flynn and Jesse Ryder, deciding that Flynn was better suited to the number 3 position and Ryder to the number 5.

At the start of the Test series, the New Zealand team were eighth on the ICC Test Championship rankings.

West Indian cricket team

The West Indies had recently lost all three matches of an ODI series against Pakistan. Their previous Test series was at home to Australia in May and June 2008, when they lost two Tests and drew one. At the beginning of the Test series, they were ranked seventh in the ICC Test Championship, one spot higher than New Zealand.

Squads

The New Zealand team for the Test series was announced on 6 December while the West Indies named their side on 5 November.

Test series
New Zealand	West Indies
Daniel Vettori	Chris Gayle
Jamie How	Carlton Baugh, Jr.
Tim McIntosh	Daren Powell
Daniel Flynn	Jerome Taylor
Ross Taylor	Xavier Marshall
Jesse Ryder	Brendan Nash
Jacob Oram	Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Brendon McCullum	Ramnaresh Sarwan
James Franklin	Sewnarine Chattergoon
Mark Gillespie	Leon Johnson
Iain O'Brien	Fidel Edwards
Jeetan Patel	Kemar Roach
	Sulieman Benn
	Denesh Ramdin
	Lionel Baker

First leg

Tour match

Auckland	v	West Indians
587/7 declared (156.1 overs) Richard Jones 201 (330) Gareth Hopkins 103* (182) Fidel Edwards 3/125 (29 overs)		431/7 (121 overs) Ramnaresh Sarwan 158 (198) Lance Shaw 2/44 (7 overs)

The only warm-up match for the West Indies was a three-day match against State Championship side Auckland. Having lost the toss and been put in to field on a batting-friendly pitch, the West Indian bowlers could only manage two wickets on the first day. Auckland reached 359/2 at stumps with Richard Jones leading the way on 186 not out. On day two Jones continued on to his maiden first-class double century before being dismissed for 201. The Auckland side continued batting until just before tea, declaring at 587/7 once Gareth Hopkins had brought up his century. At stumps on the second day, the West Indian team had reached 82 without losing a wicket. They batted throughout the final day, finishing on a score of 431/7. Ramnaresh Sarwan made the highest score for the West Indians, retiring out on a score of 158. Auckland captain Jones said that they had batted for so long before declaring because he felt that the West Indies weren't going to push for a result either. West Indian fast bowler Fidel Edwards said that the pitch had been "tiring to bowl on" but was a good workout for the bowlers prior to the Test series.

Test Series

1st Test

New Zealand	v	West Indies
365 (116 overs) Daniel Flynn 95 (188) Chris Gayle 3/42 (21 overs)		340 (100 overs) Jerome Taylor 106 (107) Daniel Vettori 6/56 (25 overs)
44/2 (10 overs) Tim McIntosh 24* (35) Daren Powell 2/17 (5 overs)

• Rain prevented any play occurring on Day 2. The wet outfield delayed play on Day 3. Play was abandoned on Day 5 due to rain.

On the day prior to the start of the first Test Jacob Oram suffered a calf strain and was unable to recover with Kyle Mills being flown in to replace him. Daniel Vettori won the toss for New Zealand and decided to bat first. The new opening partnership – New Zealand's 18th in 36 Tests – had only put on ten runs before Jamie How got out. Daniel Flynn and Tim McIntosh put on a partnership of 87 until McIntosh was dismissed after lunch followed by Ross Taylor falling to an injudicious shot. Flynn became the first New Zealander to be dismissed under the experimental review system, being given out LBW for 95; when bad light stopped play early, New Zealand were 226/4. There was no action on the second day of the match with the umpires calling off play due to rain. A further session was lost on the third day while the ground was dried, with play beginning at 2:45 pm (just over 3 hours after the scheduled start). Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder began well but were both dismissed shortly after the West Indies took the new ball. After some resistance from the final batsmen, New Zealand were dismissed for 365. The West Indian opening batsmen negotiated the 14 overs remaining in the day to be 39 without loss at stumps.

2nd Test

West Indies	v	New Zealand
307 (107 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 126* (282) Iain O'Brien 6/75 (26 overs)		371 (126.4 overs) Tim McIntosh 136 (337) Fidel Edwards 7/87 (29.4 overs)
375 (145 overs) Chris Gayle 197 (396) Jeetan Patel 5/110 (46 overs)		220/5 (51 overs) Jesse Ryder 59* (99) Jerome Taylor 2/67 (13 overs)

Second leg

Twenty20 Series

1st Twenty20

New Zealand  155/7 (20 overs)	v	West Indies 155/8 (20 overs)
Ross Taylor 63 (50) Chris Gayle 2/16 (3 overs)		Chris Gayle 67 (41) Daniel Vettori 3/16 (4 overs)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• This was the first ever cricket match with Super Over after the match ended a tie.

2nd Twenty20

New Zealand  191/9 (20 overs)	v	West Indies 155/7 (20 overs)
Jesse Ryder 62 (41) Chris Gayle 2/27 (4 overs)		Ramnaresh Sarwan 53 (36) Jeetan Patel 2/12 (2 overs)

ODI Series

1st ODI

West Indies  129/5 (35.4 overs)	v	New Zealand
Ramnaresh Sarwan 38 (57) Tim Southee 2/33 (7.4 overs)

• Rain stopped play after 35.4 overs of the West Indies innings.

2nd ODI

New Zealand  152/8 (28 overs)	v	West Indies 158/5 (27.5 overs)
Jesse Ryder 32 (43) Fidel Edwards 3/26 (6 overs)		Ramnaresh Sarwan 67* (65) Jacob Oram 1/25 (5 overs)

• Rain stopped play for four hours after 6.5 overs of the New Zealand innings; match reduced to 28 overs each.

3rd ODI

West Indies  128 (28 overs)	v	New Zealand 129/3 (20.3 overs)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 45 (77) Daniel Vettori 4/20 (10 overs)		Ross Taylor 51 (50) Daren Powell 3/25 (7 overs)

4th ODI

New Zealand  275/4 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 64/0 (10.3 overs)
Martin Guptill 122* (135) Lionel Baker 2/29 (10 overs)		Chris Gayle 46* (37)

• Rain stopped play after 10.3 overs of the West Indies innings with a revised target of 235 runs from 40 overs.
• Martin Guptill (NZ) made his ODI debut.

5th ODI

West Indies  293/9 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 211/5 (35 overs)
Chris Gayle 135 (129) Mark Gillespie 4/58 (10 overs)		Ross Taylor 48* (71) Darren Powell 3/66 (10)

New Zealand win by 9 runs(D/L) McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand Umpires: Mark Benson and Tony Hill Player of the match: Chris Gayle

• Rain stopped play after 35 overs of New Zealand's innings.

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