Justin Greaves 202* leads West Indies to improbable draw in Christchurch

Roach stayed on 53 for 72 balls, deadbatting everything, while New Zealand fed Greaves the single early in overs, trying to isolate the tail-ender. But Roach wasn’t playing like a tail-ender. He was playing like an 85-Test veteran who understood what this meant. Greaves began cramping in the final ten overs as he neared that double hundred; all that effort, all that tension finally manifesting. With a West Indian win out of the question, New Zealand crowded the bat, attacked with close-in fielders and threw everything they had left. On another day, it would have worked. On this most spectacular day, the opposition refused to budge and a Test match in New Zealand ended in a draw for the first time since 2020.