New Zealand won the last match against West Indies to win the series by 2-1. Batting first, West Indies set a target of 302 runs. Opener Shai Hope scored 51 runs off 100 balls. Kyle Mayers score 110 and Nicholas Pooran played a brilliant inning of 91 off 55 balls. The middle-order players did not bat well. No middle-order player could collect even 5 runs.
New Zealand won very easily after batting for 302 runs. Every batsman in the team batted well. So New Zealand did not face any problem winning even after the target became bigger.
There is no consistency among West Indies players. Throughout the series, we have seen unstable performances from the West Indies players. They won the first ODI very easily by batting for 190 runs. In the second ODI match, New Zealand set a target of 212 runs, but West Indies' innings ended on 161 runs. And West Indies could not win despite giving a target of more than 300 in the last match. West Indies players should be more diligent and organize themselves. Otherwise their performance will be unstable.
West Indies played very well but the problem is Shai Hope wasted a lot of balls. He scored only 51 runs from 100 balls. It is clearly not enough to do that.
In my opinion, if he had been able to score a lot more runs in those hundred balls, maybe even close to 80 runs from the same 100 balls, then West Indies might have been in a better position than they were. As you know, this was a batting pitch, so I think he would be able to do that very easily. New Zealand won the match with 17 balls left. It is evident from that fact that West Indies should have scored a lot more runs than they did. In the end, New Zealand was able to win this match without any problems at all.