NZ VS WI - 3rd T20I, West Indies tour of New Zealand, 2017-18

Colin Munro does the best new year resolutions. He's done it again in 2018, becoming the first batsman with three hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals. And he'll hope that his form continues, with Pakistan up next for a full-fledged limited-overs tour. Windies were far from competitive, failing to win anything on this tour, and they can only go up. They have to, with qualifiers for the the 2019 World Cup coming up in March. With that, this is Pratyush Sinha taking leave with Abhinand Raghavendran and Vinod. Resolve like Munro, take care, ta-ta!

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A few stats before signing off - courtesy Deepu Narayanan:

Heaviest T20I defeats for Full Member nations (by runs):
119 NZ bt WI, Mount Maunganui, 2018
116 Eng bt Afg, Colombo RPS, 2012
103 Pak bt NZ, Chrictchurch, 2010
102 Pak bt Ban, Karachi, 2008

Most runs in a bilateral T20I series:
223 C Munro (3 matches) v WI, 2017/18
222 H Masakadza (4) v Ban, 2016
211 G Maxwell (2) v SL, 2016
199 V Kohli (3) v Aus, 2016

First player to hit three 100s in:
Tests: Percy McDonnell for Aus (12 Dec 1884)
ODIs: Denis Amiss for Eng (7 Jun 1975)
T20Is: Colin Munro (3 Jan 2018)

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Williamson - captain, New Zealand: "Fantastic series. Windies are one of the top T20 sides in the world, so to come out and perform like that was amazing. Colin had an unbelievable series. Guys came after that and tried to hit the first ball for six. And then guys put their hands up to bowl against the breeze, that's a takeaway for me from this series. It's important that we continue doing well. We have tough challenges coming up. Our focus is on Pakistan, who are a very good side."

Brathwaite - captain, Windies: "We didn't execute well. Munro had a fantastic couple of months. We conceded 230 odd [sic] and lost a few early wickets. Disappointed with the performance. We had a few plans for Munro but he got past the ones we executed and some of it we didn't execute that well. New Zealand are a very very good team and they've been together for a while. Credit must go to them."

Munro - Player of the Match | Player of the Series: "Lucky to get it off the middle today. Guptill has had a long break because of injuries but to come back and play that well was amazing. I was lucky enough to get a good start and when it's your night, it's your night. I knew what these guys would do (with the ball); I have played them in the CPL. I had to work on my technique a bit once I started playing white-ball cricket across formats for New Zealand. Towards the end, I overhit it. It was more timing before that. You don't have to hit too hard as long as you middle the ball. Even if it is a home game for us, it's an away game for my family. Good to have them here. We've played some good cricket throughout the summer. "

22:02 Local Time, 09:02 GMT, 14:32 IST: Not a win for Windies on this tour. Two Tests, 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is have fallen short of warming them up. Today's been another hammering. Started with Munro and Guptill racking up a 136-run stand and continued into the second innings, when Southee struck twice in his opening over accounting for the openers, Gayle being one of them. Andre Fletcher was the only player who looked like taking Windies close but Ish Sodhi set him up beautifully. And from there, all felt like a formality, much like this tour has.

Southee to Badree, out Caught by Tom Bruce!! That's it. New Zealand win by a massive 119 runs. Shai Hope won't be batting because of a right shoulder injury he sustained today. Slower ball from Southee, has Badree miscuing his slog to long-on. Badree c Tom Bruce b Southee 2(6)

Southee to Badree, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Southee to Nurse, 1 run, checks the back foot punch to cover; quick single

Southee to Nurse, no run, gets forward and keeps out this full ball from over the wicket

Tim Southee [2.0-0-20-2] is back into the attack

Boult to Badree, no run, keeps out Boult's yorker now

Boult to Nurse, 1 run, stays put, uses his hands and dabs a single to third man

Boult to Badree, 1 run, squared up on back foot but nicely opens the bat face and runs a single down to third man

Boult to Nurse, 1 run, makes room and slams it to third man

Boult to Nurse, FOUR, well that's odd. He wanted to loft that over mid-on but he's gotten an inside edge, whilst falling. Slips at the crease but hey, he gets four through fine leg! That'll do (not)

Boult to Nurse, no run, punches to mid-off but there's no timing

Ish Sodhi to Nurse, 1 run, driven to long-off here. 128 needed off last 5 overs, hmm..