{"id":194881,"date":"2026-07-20T04:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194881"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:40:44","slug":"new-zealand-beats-west-indies-in-a-1-wicket-thriller-to-clinch-odi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194881","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand beats West Indies in a 1-wicket thriller to clinch ODI series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71243967\">Mark Chapman scored 80 and Mitchell Santner shepherded the tail to guide New Zealand to a tense one-wicket win over West Indies in the fourth ODI on Sunday and to an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.<\/p>\n<p>Santner was dropped with three runs needed and one wicket in hand, and last batter Jayden Lennox survived reviews for caught behind and lbw, before New Zealand edged past West Indies\u2019 modest total of 188 with 35 balls remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Santner, the New Zealand captain, hit the winning runs off the first ball of the 45th over to finish 34 not out and to spoil West Indies\u2019 hopes of achieving a series-leveling victory to pay tribute to cricket great Garry Sobers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty chaotic, especially the ending,\u201d Santner said. \u201cYou try to chip off the total as much as you can. Even partnerships of 10 or 15 at that stage was going a long way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt probably shouldn\u2019t have got that close but it was nice to get over the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Indies had expressed a fervent hope to honor Sobers in his home town of Bridgetown and at Kensington Oval, the stadium where he nurtured his career and made his name. Sobers died Friday aged 89; both teams wore black armbands and flags flew at half staff in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>Two seats were left empty in the pavilion named for Sobers and a minute of silence was observed before play began.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies\u2019 hopes of honoring him had an early setback when New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl. Teams bowling first have won all four matches in the series to date.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions were difficult and West Indies slipped to 58-3 and 81-6 before the innings was revived by a seventh-wicket partnership of 81 between Amir Jangoo and Gudakesh Motie.<\/p>\n<p>Jangoo scored 51, his half century off 71 balls, as West Indies ground toward a modest total. Motie made 41.<\/p>\n<p>Young pacer Matthew Fisher took 3-40, his first ODI wickets for New Zealand. His first was West Indies captain Shai Hope (2), who fell to the best ball of the day, a cross-seamer which jagged back sharply from outside off.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a bad start to its chase \u2014 losing two wickets with only six runs on the board \u2014 New Zealand was heading toward a comfortable win after Chapman and Michael Bracewell put on 65 for the fifth wicket. Chapman\u2019s dismissal left New Zealand at 142-5, needing only 47 runs to win with almost 25 overs in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Spinner Motie and pacer Alzarri Joseph epitomised West Indies\u2019 intent, bowling their team to the brink of victory. Motie took 5-47 and Joseph 1-23, putting heavy pressure on New Zealand through the closing overs.<\/p>\n<p>Bracewell (32) was out to Motie\u2019s first ball after a short rain break, then Nathan Smith (8), Jacob Duffy (1) and Fisher (1) were all dismissed quickly.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand needed eight runs when Lennox went in at No. 11. Santner took New Zealand within one run of victory but left Lennox to face a full over from Vitel Lawes which yielded two confident appeals, both rejected under review.<\/p>\n<p>Lennox survived and Santner finished the match off the first ball of the next over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a really good cricket game for the onlookers,\u201d Hope said. \u201cIf you watch a game like this as a neutral you\u2019re going to be really happy to see play like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one that could have gone to either side. I must commend our guys for the fight they showed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last match of the series will be played at Bridgetown on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 20, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/new-zealand-vs-west-indies-4th-odi-nz-wi-highlights-reports-thriller-match\/article71243967.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Chapman scored 80 and Mitchell Santner shepherded the tail to guide New Zealand to a tense one-wicket win over West Indies in the fourth ODI on Sunday and to an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. Santner was dropped with three runs needed and one wicket in hand, and last batter Jayden Lennox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AFP_C2LD4RN.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194811,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194811","url_meta":{"origin":194881,"position":0},"title":"WI vs NZ, 4th ODI, LIVE streaming info: When, where to watch West Indies vs New Zealand match?","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"New Zealand will take on the West Indies in the fourth of the five-match ODI series at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday. 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