The West Indies are staring at a heavy defeat in the first Test in Dunedin after collapsing in their first innings against New Zealand and being asked to follow on.

The tourists lost five wickets for 54 runs after lunch on the third day to be dismissed for 213 in reply to the Blacks Caps’ 609-9 declared.

Batting a second time the West Indies were 37-1 at tea after Trent Boult removed Kieran Powell for 12 to still trail the hosts by 359.

Earlier New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum quickly enforced the follow-on after the tourists lost their five remaining wickets quickly after lunch.

Trent Boult removed Denesh Ramdin and then Shivnarine Chanderpaul in the space of three overs. The end came quickly despite some lusty blows from injured captain Darren Sammy.

Ish Sodhi claimed his first two wickets on home soil and an Aaron Redmond run out did the rest as the tourists fell apart.

But the New Zealand performance was overshadowed somewhat by revelations that three former NZ players were being investigated by the International Cricket Council for alleged match-fixing.

The tourists had resumed after lunch on 159-5 but Boult produced an inspired spell to eke out Ramdin and then the key wicket of Chanderpaul.

Ramdin gloved one behind before Chanderpaul shouldered arms and was caught in front lbw for 76. He referred the decision by Paul Reiffel upstairs but the ball was adjudged to have been clipping the top of middle stump.

Leg-spinner Sodhi bowled a googly to get through Shane Shillingford before some smart work from Redmond caught Tino Best short of his ground.

Sodhi had his eighth Test wicket to trap Shannon Gabriel lbw for a first ball duck.

New Zealand bowled just 38.1 overs in the day after they resumed on 67-2 and McCullum wasted little time in asking the visitors to bat again.

Before lunch Tim Southee struck three times in a little over an hour to ram home New Zealand’s advantage.

Southee, extracting some life from a benign pitch, removed Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels and Narsingh Deonarine in a devastating eight-over spell under a blue sky in Dunedin.

Chanderpaul passed 11,000 Test runs and hit his 62nd half-century before lunch, but perished to Boult when he inexplicably opted not to play a shot.

Southee ended with 4-52 with new-ball partner Boult grabbing 3-40 and Sodhi 2-63.