The Black Caps have produced a gritty performance with the bat to beat the West Indies by one wicket in the fourth ODI in Barbados and clinch the five-match series.<\/p>\n
After trailing 1-nil early in the series, New Zealand have pulled off three straight low-scoring wins, with none of them closer than at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.<\/p>\n
After dismissing the hosts for 188 in the 45th over on a difficult batting surface, the Black Caps inched 189 for nine with 35 balls still to spare.<\/p>\n
The run chase looked well in hand at 142-4 as Mark Chapman raced to 80 off 82 balls, adopting an aggressive approach and striking eight fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n
His dismissal sparked a collapse and a nervous finish, as New Zealand scored 47 runs and lost five wickets over the last 14 overs of their innings.<\/p>\n
A key figure was captain Mitchell Santner, who struck the winning runs and finished 34 not out.<\/p>\n
He was fortunate to survive when New Zealand were three runs short of their target, lofting a miscue into the outfield off the bowling of seamer Jayden Seales.<\/p>\n
The ball fell between two converging fielders and was dropped by Justin Greaves, leaving the West Indies players and a small crowd crestfallen.<\/p>\n
No.11 batsman Jayden Lennox played out a maiden over bowled by Vitel Lawes, leaving Santner clear to hit the winning runs off Seales from the first ball of the 45th over.<\/p>\n
“It was pretty chaotic, especially at the end,” player of the match Santner told the host broadcaster.<\/p>\n
“We probably shouldn’t have let it get that close, but it was nice to get over the line.<\/p>\n
“We were very happy to bowl them out for 188 but we know how good the West Indies bowlers are, and they were pretty good today.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, paceman Matthew Fisher returned the best Black Caps bowling figures of three for 40 off eight overs.<\/p>\n
The New Zealand spinners were tight once again, with Santner and Michael Bracewell bagging two wickets each.<\/p>\n
West Indies tweaker Gudakesh Motie was highly effective during the chase, taking 5-47, including the key scalp of Chapman caught in the deep.<\/p>\n
The dead rubber fifth match is a day-night affair at the same venue on Wednesday morning (NZT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Caps have produced a gritty performance with the bat to beat the West Indies by one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-534287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534287","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=534287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}