Alana King claimed her second-best ODI bowling figures as Australia wrapped up their tour of the West Indies in style with a nine-wicket hammering to secure a 3-0 whitewash.

King’s 5 for 19, sitting behind only her 7 for 18 against South Africa at last year’s ODI World Cup, helped bundle out West Indies for just 136 in St Kitts. It came after the first two matches of the series saw her return 1 for 87 in 16 overs.

Australia raced to their target inside 20 overs as Phoebe Litchfield finished unbeaten on 68 from 56 balls to take the Player-of-the-Series honours.

The result meant Australia finished the tour with six wins from six having also won the T20Is 3-0 with most of the victories by handsome margins. “There’s a clear skill gap between the two teams but there’s things we can work on,” West Indies captain Hayley Matthews said.

West Indies lost all ten wickets for 98 having made a promising start in the powerplay after rejgging the batting order to promote Deandra Dottin alongside Matthews. But when Dottin edged Lucy Hamilton to slip, giving the left-arm quick her maiden ODI wicket, the wheels came off.

King was the fifth bowler used by Tahlia McGrath, who was again standing in for new captain Sophie Molineux, and started by claiming the key wicket of Matthews who cut loosely to cover. Two balls later Jannillea Glasgow was well taken by a diving Georgia Wareham at point in what was a much-improved catching display from Australia.

There was a brief recovery as Chinelle Henry and the recalled Realeanna Grimmond added 37 for the sixth wicket before Grimmond clubbed King to long-off. The legspinner completed her five-wicket haul by having Afy Fletcher taken at slip and Karishma Ramharack caught at long-on as Henry ran out of partners.

The chase was over in quick time with Georgia Voll the only batter to fall, picking out deep midwicket having added 50 for the first wicket with Litchfield.

Litchfield pulled out her full array of shots including a powerful switch hit and a superb reverse sweep over the off side to leave her as comfortably the leading run-scorer in the series.

Next on the agenda for both teams is the T20 World Cup in England from mid-June. Australia are due to play three additional T20s against South Africa ahead of the tournament while West Indies will be part of a tri-series in Ireland alongside the hosts and Pakistan to prepare.