Sunday\u2019s nine-run win <\/a>with illness, taking the place of Mitch Hay.<\/p>\nWith potential rain looming, Santner elected to bowl first.<\/p>\n
It appeared to be the right decision as the West Indies openers Alick Athanaze and Amir Jangoo combined for 30 runs after five overs, in a slow start.<\/p>\n
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Jimmy Neesham celebrates his wicket in the fourth T20 against the West Indies. Photo \/ Photosport.<\/p>\n
The overcast conditions eventually gave way and there was a 40-minute delay before play resumed. Two balls later, Jimmy Neesham claimed the opening wicket of Athanaze for 21.<\/p>\n
The 30-run partnership was the West Indies\u2019 highest between the openers all series, although the bar was set quite low with their past best being 13.<\/p>\n
Only nine balls were bowled when the rain returned with the West Indies at 38\/1.<\/p>\n
There was a brief glimmer of hope that play would resume at 3.50pm, but as the players were getting ready the rain returned.<\/p>\n
The latest play could resume to get a result was 4.33pm, but the decision to abandon the match was made at 4.07pm.<\/p>\n
West Indies captain Shai Hope is hopeful his side can level the series before attention turns to the one-dayers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t really get a chance to get out there and maximise on this game,\u201d Hope told TVNZ.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve still got a chance to level the series and that\u2019s our main focus for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the T20 series, a three-match one day series will take place, beginning on Sunday in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe go to Dunedin, it\u2019s probably going to be a bit colder, and probably another good surface and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9331,74,7022,2068,42574,4731,8532,3232,305,28523,5268,10543,17768,130,91,111,43,139,69,1532,1523,12229,88361,24352,1963,49118,5273,88362,3807,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-127335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-chance","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-cant","12":"tag-caps","13":"tag-days","14":"tag-ended","15":"tag-fourth","16":"tag-have","17":"tag-indies","18":"tag-lose","19":"tag-match","20":"tag-means","21":"tag-more","22":"tag-nelson","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-oval","28":"tag-over","29":"tag-result","30":"tag-saxton","31":"tag-secure","32":"tag-series","33":"tag-twenty20","34":"tag-wait","35":"tag-washout","36":"tag-west","37":"tag-will"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}