After a 3-0 deficit in the Test series, West Indies go through yet another whitewash. New Zealand won the 3rd ODI by 66 runs against the Windies at Christchurch.

Each side faced a total of 23 overs in the rain-curtailed match today. New Zealand, winning the toss, batted first and registered a total of 131 runs losing 4 wickets.

Before the 5-hour long raining session, 19 overs were bowled. Following the decision of a 23-over match, New Zealand then came on to the field and scored 48 runs in the remaining 4 overs.

Cottrell dismissed both George Worker and Neil Broom at 2 runs, while Holder got the wicket of another opener Colin Munro who had made 21 runs before getting out.

Nikita Miller bagged the wicket of Tom Latham. Kiwi captain, keeper-batsman Latham, posted 37 runs before leaving the ground. Ross Taylor remained unbeaten at 47 runs alongside his partner Henry Nicholls who played an innings of 18 runs at a strike rate of 200.

D/L method set a target of 166 runs for the Caribbean team. The West Indian team finished their 23 overs of batting by making 99 runs losing 9 wickets.

Trent Boult and Mitchell Santner took 3 wickets each, while Matt Henry picked up 2 wickets and Todd Astle bagged 1.

West Indian skipper, Jason Holder, played the highest individual innings of 34 runs for his team. Nikita Miller and Shannon Gabriel were not-out scoring 20 and 12 runs respectively. West Indies kept losing wickets from the beginning and gave away 5 wickets scoring the first 9 runs.