New Zealand won a rain-shortened fourth one-day international against the West Indies at Saxton Oval in Nelson by 58 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system.

The win gives the Kiwis a 2-1 lead going into the fifth and final match in Hamilton on Wednesday.

Spearheaded by opener Martin Guptill’s man-of-the-match 81, the Black Caps batted out their 50 overs for 6-285, leaving the Windies well short at 5-134 when rain stopped play after 33.4 overs.

The visitors were always on the back foot after a disastrous start, reeling at 2-2 after 3.4 overs.

Chadwick Walton was run out without scoring four balls into the first over and Johnson Charles disappeared soon after, flicking Mitchell McClenaghan to Tim Southee at long leg.

But Kirk Edwards and Lendl Simmons worked hard to restore the innings and made excellent progress, adding 60 runs in 65 balls before sharp work from McCullum and poor communication left Edwards short of his ground.

With Edwards run out for 24, and the Windies floundering at 3-62, Simmons continued to anchor the innings until midway through the 22nd over.

Looking to belt Kane Williamson over midwicket, he instead picked out Guptill on the boundary and holed out for 43 off 48 balls.

An increasingly grey sky and patchy drizzle kept the Kiwis ticking off the overs quickly, and the Windies played their part by obligingly losing wickets.

Narsingh Deonarine was the last wicket to fall, making three before top-edging Kyle Mills to the safe hands of Nathan McCullum on the long leg boundary.

Windies skipper Dwayne Bravo was unbeaten on 43 when play was halted, with keeper Dinesh Ramdin on 17.

The West Indies won the first ODI on Boxing Day by two wickets, and while the second was rained off in Napier, the Black Caps took the third by 159 runs in Queenstown on New Year’s Day.