HAMIL­TON–Kirk Ed­wards hit his maid­en One Day in­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) hun­dred and Dwayne Bra­vo his sec­ond as West In­dies crushed New Zealand by 203 runs in the fifth and fi­nal ODI to draw the se­ries two games each.

Ed­wards was un­de­feat­ed on 123 while Bra­vo scored 106 high­light­ing a su­pe­ri­or all round per­for­mance by the Caribbean side to cli­max the se­ries on a high at Sed­don Park in Hamil­ton here yes­ter­day.

Open­er Kier­an Pow­ell set the Windies off to a fly­ing start by rac­ing to a 44 ball 73, and set­ting the tone for their to­tal of 363 for four, their high­est ODI to­tal but the Black Caps had no an­swer to an out­fit on fire and im­plod­ed for 160 in 29.5 overs.

Pow­ell hit 12 fours and two six­es to dom­i­nate an open­ing stand of 95 with John­son Charles in 12 overs.

His knock in­clud­ed a six which was caught by a fan, who won US$100,000 of­fered by a beer com­pa­ny for a one-hand­ed catch.

Ed­wards and Bra­vo came to­geth­er at 143-3 to con­sol­i­date then ac­cel­er­ate af­ter Pow­ell fell leg-be­fore to spin­ner Nathan Mc­Cul­lum and the run rate slowed af­ter his de­par­ture.

They added 211 for the fourth wick­et, West In­dies' third-high­est stand in one-day in­ter­na­tion­als, sur­pass­ing the pre­vi­ous best of 360 set against Sri Lan­ka in 1987.

Ed­wards' 108 ball knock in­clud­ed 12 fours and four six­es while Bra­vo's en­ter­tain­ing in­nings fea­tured 12 fours and three six­es.

New Zealand nev­er built mo­men­tum in their run chase as the five front­line bats­men were dis­missed with the score on 65.

The big-hit­ting Corey An­der­son was caught on 29 as the Black Caps tum­bled to 94-6 while Kyle Mills led some low­er-or­der re­sis­tance be­fore he was run out for 26.

Left-arm spin­ner Niki­ta Miller fin­ished with 4-45, while Bra­vo fol­lowed up his cen­tu­ry with a miser­ly 1-12 off five overs to be named man of the match.

Ja­son Hold­er and An­dre Rus­sell each picked up two wick­ets.

West In­dies' over­whelm­ing dis­play, fol­low­ing poor per­for­mances in the two pre­vi­ous ODIs, re­sult­ed in New Zealand's sec­ond heav­i­est ODI de­feat.

The two teams now play a two-match Twen­ty 20 se­ries start­ing in Auck­land on Sat­ur­day. (CMC)

Score­board

West In­dies inns

K Pow­ell lbw b NL Mc­Cul­lum 73

J Charles run out (NL Mc­Cul­lum) 31

K Ed­wards not out 123

L Sim­mons c Williamson b An­der­son 9

DJ Bra­vo c NL Mc­Cul­lum b Williamson 106

A Rus­sell not out 6

Ex­tras: (lb 4, w 11) 15

To­tal: (4 wick­ets; 50 overs) 363

Did not bat: C Wal­ton, D Ramdin, S Nar­ine, J Hold­er, N Miller

Fall of wick­ets: 1-95 (Pow­ell) 2-116 (Charles), 3-143 (Sim­mons), 4-354 (Bra­vo)

Bowl­ing: Southee 10-0-64-0,Mc­Cle­naghan 8-0-64-0,Mc­Cul­lum 10-0-64-1, An­der­son 10-1-77-1,Mills 8-0-60-0, Williamson 4-0-30-1.

New Zealand inns

(tar­get: 364 runs from 50 overs)

M Gup­till b Bra­vo 6

J Ry­der c Sim­mons b Hold­er 17

K Williamson lbw b Hold­er 16

R Tay­lor c �Ramdin b Miller 9

B Mc­Cul­lum c Charles b Miller 6

Corey J An­der­son c Bra­vo b Rus­sell 29

L Ronchi hit wick­et b Miller 15

NL Mc­Cul­lum c �Ramdin b Rus­sell 18

K Mills run out (Hold­er) 26

T Southee c Bra­vo b Miller 9

M Mc­Cle­naghan not out 9

To­tal: (10 wick­ets; 29.5 overs) 160

Fall of wick­ets 1-21 (Gup­till) , 2-37 (Ry­der), 3-45 (Williamson), 4-50 (Tay­lor), 5-65 (B Mc­Cul­lum), 6-94 (An­der­son), 7-123 (NL Mc­Cul­lum), 8-125 (Ronchi), 9-151 (Southee), 10-160 (Mills)

Bowl­ing: Hold­er 5-0-35-2, DJ Bra­vo 5-0-12-1,Miller 10-1-45-4, Nar­ine 5.5-0-31-0, Rus­sell 4-0-31-2

Toss: New Zealand, who chose to field

Se­ries: 5-match se­ries drawn 2-2

Play­er of the match: DJ Bra­vo (West In­dies)

Um­pires: CB Gaffaney and REJ Mar­ti­nesz (Sri Lan­ka)

TV um­pire: IJ Gould (Eng­land)

Match ref­er­ee: BC Broad (Eng­land)

Re­serve um­pire: GAV Bax­ter