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Black Caps fast bowler went so close to a test hat-trick at the Basin Reserve but still grabbed a five-wicket bag.
Just six weeks ago at a near-deserted Eden Park Outer Oval, Kyle Jamieson charged across the outfield in celebration after achieving a bowler’s prized feat, a hat-trick. On Saturday at the Basin Reserve, a packed hill on their feet chanting his name, Jamieson, remarkably, had a shot at another. In a test match against West Indies, no less, just the fourth of this skyrocketing international career at age 25. Having shattered Roston Chase’s stumps for two in two, Jamieson’s hat-trick delivery was almost too good as the 5528-strong crowd and his team-mates roared. A full inswinger rapped Jermaine Blackwood on the pads and it looked a good lbw shout.
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Black Caps fast bowler went so close to a test hat-trick at the Basin Reserve but still grabbed a five-wicket bag.
Queues snaked out from the C.S Dempster Gate, as cricket fans crammed the Basin Reserve hill and the Black Caps delighted them by delivering another knockout punch on super Saturday. Barely a week after their innings and 134-run first test victory in Hamilton, New Zealand’s four-pronged pace attack was again too hot to handle for the weary, outgunned West Indies batsmen. Led by a dramatic incision from the towering Kyle Jamieson, who went within centimetres of a test hat-trick and ended with 5-34 off 13 overs, the Black Caps have a three-day victory in their sights.