While much of the sporting world was focused on the FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey, New Zealand and the West Indies played a tense one-day international at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, where both teams paid tribute to Sir Garry Sobers.New Zealand held their nerve to beat the West Indies by one wicket in a low-scoring contest, taking an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match ODI series.Captain Mitchell Santner led the chase with an unbeaten 34, guiding the lower order through the closing stages after New Zealand looked in danger of going down. No 11 Jayden Lennox also played an important role, surviving 10 deliveries in an unbeaten nine-run stand with Santner to help the visitors get over the line.Lennox had been named Player of the Match in each of the previous two matches for his bowling performances.Earlier, Mark Chapman top-scored for New Zealand with 80 after West Indies were bowled out for 188 on a two-pitch surface.With three runs needed and one wicket remaining, Santner was dropped before Lennox survived the reviews for a caught and lbw appeal. New Zealand eventually reached the target with 35 balls to spare.“It was pretty chaotic, especially the end,” Santner said. “Try to throw the total as much as possible. Even the partners of 10 or 15 at that stage were going a lot.“I probably shouldn’t have approached it that way, but it was nice to get over the line.”The match was played two days after the death of Sir Garry Sobers, who died on Friday at the age of 89. Playing in the hometown of Sobers, Bridgetown, and in Kensington Oval, where he built his career, the West Indies had hoped to honor one of the greatest cricketers of the country with a victory.Both teams wore black armbands, flags flew at half-mast, two seats in the Sir Garry Sobers Pavilion were left empty, and a minute’s silence was observed before the start of the game.Sobers is widely regarded as the greatest West Indian cricketer and one of the finest all-rounders in the history of the game, having scored more than 8,000 runs and taken more than 200 wickets.West Indies’ hopes of a fitting tribute suffered an early setback when New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl. The teams batting second have now won all four games in the series.The home side slumped to 58 for 3 and then 81 for 6 before Amir Jangoo and Gudakesh Motie added 81 runs for the seventh wicket to revive the innings.Jangoo scored 51 off 71 balls, while Motie contributed 41 to take West Indies to 188.Young fast bowler Matthew Fisher claimed 3 for 40, his first ODI wickets for New Zealand.