Black Caps are fourth in terms of percentage points won, the factor that determines the final placings, following a change to the points system announced last week
The teams left the field due to rain after just 2.2 overs on Monday night, with the West Indies at 25/1, and were never able to return, with the game being called off at 9.20pm local time.
After putting a mammoth score of 238/3, the Black Caps restricted the visitors to 166/9 in their allotted 20 overs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
In a rail-curtailed 16-over match, the Black Caps chased down the 176-run target with four balls to spare to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Most of the members of the West Indies squad had arrived from the UAE after competing in the Indian Premier League on November 14.
CWI assured that the "best available" team will be sent for the tour in January comprising three Tests, as many ODIs and two T20Is but wants the five-day games to be reduced.
Talking about the decision to drop Hope, Cricket West Indies' chief selector Roger Harper said that he was not "at his best" in the longest format of the game for a while.
These tests were conducted specifically for the entire IPL contingent that had arrived from the UAE on November 14 and then went into quarantine.
CWI further informed that all of the West Indies players who arrived in Auckland on Thursday following the end of the IPL, have passed initial health screening checks.
Pace bowlers Tim Southee (back), Neil Wagner (hip/groin) and Matt Henry (broken thumb) and spinner Ajaz Patel (calf) are undergoing treatment.
The 27-year-old spinner wants to "nail down" his Test career, which is only three games old, and if leagues like the IPL happen along the way, it would be a "bonus".
The 36-year-old Sammy last played for West Indies when he led the team to the 2016 T20 World Cup win, beating England in the final at Eden Gardens.
Australia were scheduled to host West Indies in a three-match T20I series in October.
West Indies's batting performance in the England series has been among their worst on tour since 2000, with the top-6 averaging just 28.66 with no century in the entire three-game series.
Holder primarily put forth the lack of runs or the inability to convert the starts that stood as the difference between the two sides.
The day was a washout, leaving the fate of the three-test series to the last day, weather permitting again.
The Windies closed day three on 10-2 — and still 389 runs from its unlikely victory target — after wickets in successive overs by a rampant Broad in the final half hour at Old Trafford.
Roach became the first West Indies bowler since the legendary Curtly Ambrose 26 years ago to go past 200 Test wickets.
Broad smashed a counterattacking 62 in a return to form with the bat then played a lead role as part of England's destructive pace quartet to leave the West Indies on the ropes after day two of the deciding third Test.
Roach is now the ninth West Indies bowler to join the elite club and only finds himself faster than Sobers (80) to reach the feat.
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