West Indies v New Zealand, 2012

At Basseterre, St Kitts, July 16, 2012. West Indies won by 20 runs. Toss: West Indies.

The fifth match followed an almost identical pattern to the fourth: New Zealand again found themselves needing eight an over off the last six with four wickets intact - only to be obliterated by Narine. West Indies had faltered after Gayle's third successive failure, before a careful fifty from Dwayne Bravo and an explosive one from Russell set a competitive, if hardly imposing, total. New Zealand initially struggled in reply, before Williamson - in partnerships of 31 with Latham and 68 with Ellis - carried them to within view. But Narine, attacking from a new line around the wicket, struck three times in nine balls for his best one-day international figures, and the best by any West Indies spinner, surpassing Jimmy Adams's five for 37 against Pakistan at Adelaide in 1996-97. "In our conditions, Narine is unplayable," declared Sammy.

Man of the Match: S.P. Narine
Man of the Series: S.P. Narine