With a rare century opening stand, New Zealand beats West Indies by 5 wickets in 2nd ODI

NAPIER, New Zealand (AP) — A rare century partnership between Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra was the cornerstone Wednesday to New Zealand's five-wicket win over the West Indies in the second one-day international.

New Zealand holds an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series ahead of the final match on Saturday, it's 11th consecutive series win at home.

Shai Hope made a century from 67 balls and led West Indies to 247-9 as it batted first after losing the toss.

Hope surpassed 6,000 ODI runs early in his innings, and with his first hundred against New Zealand completed a full set of centuries against all test-playing nations. He is the second-fastest West Indies batter to reach 6,000 runs after Viv Richards.

“I always look at it this way, I got 109. It was still not enough,” said Hope whose century was the fifth fastest by a West Indies batter in ODIs.

“I needed to get 120 or 130 for us to win. That's how I look at it.”

Conway made 90 from 84 balls and Ravindra 56 from 46 deliveries, sharing a partnership of 106 from 100 balls in a match shortened by rain to 34 overs per side. It was the first century partnership by a New Zealand opening pair in 73 matches over five years.

Tom Latham then made 39 from 29 balls and Mitchell Santner 34 from 15 as New Zealand reached 248-5 with three balls remaining.

New Zealand needed 8 runs from the last over and were helped when Jayden Seales conceded a four second ball from a no ball.

Earlier, Hope reached 90 from 62 balls but was stranded for almost three overs on that score as he ran out of partners,

Shamar Springer was out to the first ball of the last over, leaving Hope off strike and the West Indies 235-9. But Seales hurried through for a single and Hope hit the next ball from Kyle Jamieson for six to complete his century, with 13 fours and four sixes.

Rain delayed the start of play by three hours. New Zealand won the toss and the match began in humid conditions in which the ball swung significantly early on. Scoring was difficult when bowlers kept a full length and denied batters width.

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West Indies' Shai Hope celebrates making 100 runs against New Zealand during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

New Zealand's Rachin Ravindra bats against the West Indies during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

New Zealand's Devon Conway bats against the West Indies during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

West Indies' Roston Chase walks off after he is bowled by New Zealand's Nathan Smith during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

West Indies' Shai Hope bats against New Zealand during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

West Indies' Shai Hope bats against New Zealand during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

West Indies' Shai Hope bats against New Zealand during their One Day International cricket match in Napier, New Zealand, Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025. (Kerry Marshall/Photosport via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he arrived at the court Wednesday to attend the arguments.

The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions, one of several courts that have blocked them. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.

A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.

Trump will be the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.

Crowds watched from the sidewalks as Trump’s motorcade drove along Constitution and Independence Avenues, passing the Washington Monument and the National Mall on the way to the court building.

The case frames another test of Trump's assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president's favor — but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.

The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social platform. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”

Trump's order would upend the long-standing view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order as illegal, or likely so, under the Constitution and federal law. The decisions have invoked the high court's 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

The Trump administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.

The court should use the case to set straight “long-enduring misconceptions about the Constitution’s meaning,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.

No court has accepted that argument, and lawyers for pregnant women whose children would be affected by the order said the Supreme Court should not be the first to do so.

“We have the president of the United States trying to radically reinterpret the definition of American citizenship,” said Cecillia Wang, the American Civil Liberties Union legal director who is facing off against Sauer at the Supreme Court.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright restrictions also would apply to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

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Demonstrators holding opposing views verbally engage ahead of President Donald Trump's arrival at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

President Donald Trump's limo exits the White House en route to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)