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Mark Chapman made a gritty half-century to usher New Zealand to a four-wicket triumph implicit the West Indies successful the 3rd one-day planetary Saturday and a 3-0 bid sweep.
Chapman reached his 4th ODI half-century from 58 balls and went connected to people 64 successful a 75-run fifth-wicket concern with Michael Bracewell arsenic New Zealand chased down the West Indies' 161 with 19.3 overs remaining.
New Zealand held a 2-0 pb aft winning the archetypal lucifer by 7 runs and the 2nd by 5 wickets.
The West Indies chose to bat archetypal aft winning the flip but managed lone 161 connected a transportation astatine Seddon Park, which had much menace than its comparatively placid quality suggested.
First done Matt Henry with the caller ball, past with effectual usage of the abbreviated shot and aboriginal with Mitch Santner's spin, New Zealand dismissed the tourists successful 36.2 overs.
“It was rather a dilatory aboveground truthful astir apt looked a spot antithetic to however you privation to spell astir your enactment present astatine Seddon Park,” Henry said. "It's a tiny crushed each circular truthful you privation to beryllium taking wickets passim to enactment teams nether pressure.
“Thankfully we could support doing that with immoderate bowling from the full team.”
New Zealand faced existent difficulties successful its chase, stumbling to 32-3 aft Will Young was brilliantly caught by Khary Pierre successful the 11th implicit successful 1 of the highlights of the match. Pierre dived afloat magnitude astatine abbreviated screen to prime disconnected Young's thrust disconnected Matthew Forde successful mid air.
New Zealand was 70-4 erstwhile Tom Latham was retired for 10 aft grafting for 25 balls. The West Indies kept New Zealand nether aboriginal unit with choky lines and hustle successful the field.
But Chapman and Bracewell eased the unit successful a concern which was the largest of the match. Chapman reached his 50 with a six successful an implicit successful which helium took 17 runs from the bowling of Forde. It was his 5th people of 50 oregon much successful his past 7 innings. Bracewell finished 40 not retired from 31 balls.
West Indies skipper Shai Hope was blessed to bat archetypal connected what looked to beryllium a docile transportation astatine Seddon Park, adust and sparsely grassed. But determination was a small plaything aboriginal and, erstwhile that abated, New Zealand's persistence with a shorter magnitude paid disconnected arsenic batters made a commencement but often fell to brushed dismissals.
Henry dismissed Ackeem Auguste and Keacy Carty wrong the abstraction of 3 balls successful the 5th implicit aft the West Indies had made a agleam start. The tourists scored astatine a tally a shot done the archetypal 10-over powerfulness play but mislaid 3 wickets successful that play which exposed the mediate order.
Four wickets fell for 36 runs successful the adjacent 10 overs — the West Indies were 96-7 — and the process again was called connected to travel to the rescue.
Roston Chase bolstered the innings with 38 from 51 balls earlier falling to a abbreviated shot from Henry which flew to Bracewell astatine other cover.
Khary Pierre, playing for the archetypal clip successful the series, showed immoderate defiance with an unbeaten 22, including 2 sixes earlier Henry finished the innings with the wicket of Jayden Seales. Henry took 4-43 and Santer 2-27.
