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Pride on the line for West Indians

NAPIER: Personal pride will motivate the West Indies in the third cricket Test against New Zealand starting on Saturday even though the series is already lost, coach Bennett King said.

New Zealand won the first Test in Auckland by 27 runs and clinched the three-Test series when it won the second in Wellington by 10 wickets, but Bennett said the West Indies would not easily concede the third at McLean Park.

"An international cricketer has to be driven all the time," King said Friday.

"We're certainly pushing the fact that everytime we go out on the field for the West Indies we're representing our people and their nations, and if that isn't reason enough then you don't deserve to be in the side. We truly believe this side is capable of much better than what they're doing."

The teams (from):

New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (capt.), Hamish Marshall, Jamie How, Peter Fulton, Nathan Astle, Scott Styris, Brendan McCullum, Daniel Vettori, James Franklin, Kyle Mills, Shane Bond, Chris Martin and Jeetan Patel.

West Indies: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (capt.), Chris Gayle, Daren Ganga, Brian Lara, Runako Morton, Dwayne Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Ian Bradshaw, Rawl Lewis, Fidel Edwards, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Devon Smith. — AP

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