Cricket: Maddy Green wins it for White Ferns again to earn victory in T20 series dead rubber against West Indies

The White Ferns have completed their Twenty20 International series victory, taking the fifth and final match by five wickets for a 4-1 scoreline over the West Indies.

With the series already in the bag after Thursday's Super Over victory at Antigua, the White Ferns kept winning momentum to take the dead rubber finale, earning another valuable win in their build up to the 2023 T20 World Cup in South Africa.

Needing 18 runs from the final three overs, Maddy Green played a vital hand with an unbeaten 32, after combining with Amelia Kerr (26) for a run-a-ball stand of 37, the highest partnership of the match.

And with scores level for the final ball, Green clipped a single out to deep midwicket for the winning runs, getting home to avoid a second straight Super Over.

Green's innings was her second match-winning knock of the series, after her 49 not out earned a five-wicket victory in game three.

Bowling first after Sophie Devine won the toss, the White Ferns' spinners had the measure of the West Indies for the second time in as many days.

Opening up, Fran Jonas returned immaculate figures of 2/8 from her four overs, backed up by 2/17 from Eden Carson, and 3/10 from the part-time off-spin of Suzie Bates.

As all eight wickets fell to spin, the White Ferns restricted their hosts to 101/8 from their 20 overs. 

Captain Hayley Mathews led from the front with 56 from 54 balls, but no other West Indian batter reached double figures - with the next best score being eight each to Kyshona Knight and Chedean Nation.

In reply, the White Ferns top order were made to work for their runs on a slow pitch.

After putting on 25 runs in the power play, Bates fell for 13 in the seventh over, before Brooke Halliday (1) departed five balls later.

Devine added 23 from 26 before she was run out by Karishma Ramharack, bringing Kerr and Green together.

The pair played a calculated hand together in keeping on course to reach the target, before Kerr was out, caught off the bowling of Shabika Gajnabi with 23 runs still needed.

But in Green, the White Ferns had a proven finisher, dominating an 18-run partnership with Georgia Plimmer (3), who was run out with five runs still required.

And with five needed from the final over, Green held her nerve to complete the victory, adding another trophy to the White Ferns' collection after winning the ODI series last month.

West Indies 101/8 (Matthews 56; Bates 3/10, Jonas 2/8, Carson 2/17) New Zealand 102/5 (Green 32 not out, A.Kerr 26; Gajnabi 1/8, Fletcher 1/12, Grimmond 2/12)