ACC Host (likely Mike Lane)

Welcome along to day three of this third test match, West Indies versus the Black Caps.

West Indies 110 without loss, chasing New Zealand's first inning total of 575 for eight declared.

Pitch turning into a road of national significance.

A few cracks opening up though, which hopefully will help New Zealanders maybe eke out a wicket today, but it's a pleasure to welcome to the Export Beer Garden Studios for the first time today, New Zealand's premier subscription sports journalist, Dylan Cleaver, and New Zealand's premier sports journalist, Paul Stewart-Ford.

Lovely to be here, Mike, and it'd be nice to see a wicket, wouldn't it?

It'd be nice to see something.

Like 20 wickets, I think.

Yep.

I think Bob Marley songs should be the West Indies national anthem.

Yeah, here comes folks.

First ball of day three and it's an innocuous delivery outside off stump.

Like over the year I'd be happy if they just went through the greatest hits and just played that.

You know, they've got that really punishing anthem that they play and they don't sing it and they all just laugh because it literally feels like one of those AFL songs that you sing around a keg.

We do mute it and play Bob Marley.

We played Redemption Song on the second test and we played One Love.

at the start of this test, and it actually fitted pretty well.

Yeah, so much better.

I think you'd have the opposition singing, wouldn't you?

Folks, again, another innocuous medium-paced delivery outside off stump, left through to the keeper.

Looking at the sparse crowd on the Bay Oval Bank, perhaps Exodus might have been appropriate for this morning.