29 December,2013 03:24 AM IST | | AFP
Their two wicket win in the first one-dayer in Auckland on Boxing Day was the tonic the side needed coming off a 2-0 defeat in the three-Test series here.u00a0Although it was another unconvincing display with the bat in Auckland, the run-friendly McLean Park wicket in Napier offers the West Indies top order the chance to spend long spells in the middle on Sunday.
Their front-line seamers Ravi Rampaul, Jason Holder and Dwayne Bravo, who were not part of the Test squad, had the measure of New Zealand in the first ODI as they dismissed their hosts for a modest 156 in the 43rd over.