Matt Henry four-for restricts West Indies to 161

New Zealand's four-man pace attack tore through West Indies' fragile batting line-up with swing, pace and bounce, dismissing the visitors for 161 in the third ODI in Hamilton. Having already wrapped up the series, New Zealand are poised to sweep West Indies 3-0 and fortify their command at home - they have lost just two ODIs at home since the start of 2020.

Only South Africa (17) have achieved more consecutive bilateral series wins than New Zealand's 11 at home in men's ODIs.

Matt Henry led the way for the Black Caps with figures of 4 for 43 while Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy and Zak Foulkes, who had replaced the injured Nathan Smith (hamstring issue), shared four among them. In the absence of Romario Shepherd, who was out with a hamstring niggle of his own, West Indies' batting lacked depth and they ended up being dismissed with almost 14 overs unused in their innings.

It was Henry who started West Indies' slide in the powerplay when he removed rookie opener Ackeem Auguste and Keacy Carty in the fifth over. Auguste, 22, squandered another start when he flapped a hard-length delivery to mid-on for 17 off 19 balls. Henry then shifted to a Test-match line and length to have an indecisive Carty chopping on for a duck.

The Seddon Park conditions didn't offer prodigious swing or seam movement, but there was enough to keep Henry and Kyle Jamieson interested. Jamieson went around the wicket and found movement and extra bounce to have John Campbell, the other opener, nicking off to slip for 26 off 24 balls. Apart from Campbell, Roston Chase was the only other West Indies batter to pass 25 on the day.

Shai Hope, the best batter in this West Indies ODI side, had a decent start, but his innings was cut short on 16 when Foulkes had him caught by the keeper down the leg side off an inswinger. West Indies slumped to 77 for 4 at that point.

Only the early juice disappeared, New Zealand's quicks relentlessly banged the ball into the pitch and discomfited West Indies' batters. Henry, Jamieson and Duffy all showed their creativity by bowling cross-seamers and scrambled-seam deliveries into the pitch.

Sherfane Rutherford, Chase and Shamar Springer all were bounced out and at one stage, captain Santner had even installed Rachin Ravindra at short leg. Neil Wagner, who was in the commentary box, might have had memories of his own short-ball bursts.

Chase needed some treatment and taping on his hand after Jamieson smacked him on his glove with a lifter in the 30th over. After Jamieson had softened Chase up, Henry made the incision in the next over when he had Chase top-edging a catch to extra-cover.

Khary Pierre, who got a game in place of Shepherd, and No.11 Jayden Seales showed some semblance of resistance with an 18-run partnership for the last wicket before Henry broke through and applied the finishing touches.

Santner had also done his bit with the ball, picking up the wickets of Justin Greaves and Matthew Forde in his first over to hasten West Indies' collapse.