Daniel Vettori is predicting the five-match one-day campaign against the West Indies will be another close contest.

There has been little to choose between the two sides so far during this tour with the Test series finishing 0-0 and each team winning one Twenty20 match.

It has made for some exciting cricket at times and certainly the Twenty20 internationals hinted at things to come in the one-dayers which start in Queenstown on New Year's Eve.

"I think in Test match, one-day and Twenty20 cricket there is an element of parity about both teams. I think it's going to be the same in this one-day series," Vettori said.

"We will be confident on our home patch but we know they have got some pretty destructive players led by (Chris) Gayle, (Ramnaresh) Sarwan and (Shivnarine) Chanderpaul.

"If we can do our utmost to eliminate their contribution throughout the series I think it will give us a huge chance of winning."

Captains Vettori and Gayle will undoubtedly by key men for their respective teams again.

West Indies skipper Gayle has been in impressive form with the bat and has been more than useful with the ball as well.

After hitting an excellent 197 in the second innings of the second Test he clubbed 67 runs in the first Twenty20 match in Auckland before smacking Vettori for 25 runs in the super over eliminator to win the match for the tourists.

His dismissal for nought in the second game in Hamilton was also proof of just how much the Windies rely on their top order batsman as they struggled to find runs without him at the crease with no-one able to back up Sarwan's timely half-century.

Sarwan had failed to deliver on tour before his 53 on Sunday and Gayle was hopeful that knock was the start of things to come in the one-day series.

It was time he got among the runs and hopefully that will build his confidence going into the five one-dayers, the West Indies skipper said.

For New Zealand, Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder showed once again the value they bring at the top of the order in the shorter form of the game.

Ryder has been in good touch for the whole of the series so far with scores of 89, 57 and 59 in the Tests and a 62 in Sunday's Twenty20, while McCullum looked backed to his best in Hamilton after a quiet Test series by his standards.

Ross Taylor is another who can punish sides on his day as well, while Kyle Mills and Jeetan Patel have backed up their skipper's miserly spells with the ball.

Both teams have made changes to their squads for the one-day matches.

Impressive spin bowler Sulieman Benn is a surprising discard from the West Indies squad and has instead been replaced by Nikita Miller.

New Zealand have named their squad for only the opening two matches in Queenstown and Christchurch.

Newcomer Neil Broom, who is in for the injured Scott Styris, joins recalled pair Grant Elliott and Jamie How, who were not wanted for the Twenty20 matches, in the 13 and James Franklin and Ewen Thompson drop out.