Kraigg Brathwaite offers the visitors a glimpse of hope

After being on the field for nearly 150 overs, West Indies hearts might have sunk, especially after being bowled out for 134 in the first innings. But the visitors showed plenty of resilience on day four when they lost just two wickets in the entire day and finished with just under 200 and with eight wickets.

The performance of the openers in both innings will be something that offers a crumb of comfort for the Windies camp. As will the performance of Shimron Hetmyer, who scored a brilliant half century and survived a fierce spell of fast bowling from the Kiwi pace attack.

Colin de Grandhomme contributed with the bat and ball

In the absence of BJ Watling, there was an added responsibility on Colin de Grandhomme's shoulders to provide some runs in the lower middle-order and ensure that New Zealand's tactics of going in with just three front-line bowlers didn't backfire.

His maiden Test century, which came off 71 balls and was the fastest against the Windies in Tests, second-fastest by a Kiwi batsman and the 10th fastest in Test history, put New Zealand in complete command of the game. He came in with the score at 272/5 and left when the lead was almost 300.

Henry proved to be a valuable addition to the pace attack

Coming into the first Test of the home summer, New Zealand were rocked by injuries to a couple of their key players. Tim Southee, the leader of the bowling attack was ruled
out due to injury while BJ Watling wasn't fit to take part either. In their place came Matt Henry and Tom Blundell and both players played their part in ensuring a comfortable victory for the Black Caps to kickstart their summer.

Windies bore the full brunt of Wagner's wrath on day one

When you think about the New Zealand pace attack, you immediately talk about Tim Southee and Trent Boult. However, the only Kiwi bowler in the top ten of the ICC Test rankings is Neil Wagner, who occupies ninth place.

His figures of 7/39 was his career-best Test figures and the second-best strike rate by a Kiwi bowler in a seven-wicket haul as he took a wicket every 12.5 balls. That set up the match for the hosts who went on to complete an innings victory.

Wagner and Blundell were the heroes for the hosts

Maiden Test centuries from Colin de Grandhomme and debutant Tom Blundell coupled with Neil Wagner's fiery first innings helped New Zealand beat West Indies by an innings and 67 runs on day four of the first Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

Wagner's seven-for on day one but the hosts in command of the game and that was only strengthened after some stoic resistance from the lower middle-order, which helped the Black Caps cross 500. A massive deficit was simply too much for the West Indies, who were bowled out for 319 on day four and succumbed to another innings defeat.