High Risk - Good Returns

Kesrick Williams: has taken 11 wickets in 7 inns in 2019/20 T20I season

Shimron Hetmyer: has scored 185 runs (11 inns) at AVG of 23.12 and SR of 148 in the IPL 2020.

X-factor Picks

Nicolas Pooran: has had a tremendous IPL 2020 season scoring at SR of 169.71 and average of 35.30

Lockie Ferguson: has picked minimum one wicket in 7 out of 8 innings bowled in T20I (14 wickets overall)

Sheldon Cottrell: has taken 4 wickets in 2 innings against WI in T20I

Must-Have

Martin Guptill: averages 43.92 and has SR of 169.94 scoring 571 runs (14 inns) while batting at Auckland in T20Is

Ross Taylor: has average of 42.33 batting against WI in T20Is, scored 254 runs in 9 innings

Kieron Pollard: has batting average of 33.0 against NZ scoring at SR of 154.20 in T20I

Andre Fletcher: has scored 250 runs at average of 41.66 scoring at SR of 121.35 against NZ in T20I

Tim Southee: has picked minimum one wicket in 8 out of 10 T20I innings bowled against WI (15 wickets overall)

Squads:

New Zealand Squad: Martin Guptill, Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert(wk), Ross Taylor, James Neesham, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee(c), Ish Sodhi, Kyle Jamieson, Lockie Ferguson, Hamish Bennett, Devon Conway

West Indies Squad: Brandon King, Andre Fletcher, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran(wk), Kieron Pollard(c), Rovman Powell, Fabian Allen, Keemo Paul, Sheldon Cottrell, Kesrick Williams, Oshane Thomas, Kyle Mayers, Romario Shepherd, Hayden Walsh