Australia completed a series winning over West Indies with a comprehensive 162-run victory in the fifth ODI.
Mitchell Johnson took five wickets as the Windies could only reach 172 against Australia's 341 for eight, after Luke Ronchi, brothers David and Michael Hussey and Andrew Symonds all completing their half centuries.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was the highest scorer with (38) against Australia.
Chasing a challenging target, West Indies made a dreadful start by losing Marcus Gayle (five) in the second over, the opener thick-edging Johnson to Ronchi.
Ramnaresh Sarwan (seven) was caught by a James Hopes at mid-off in the sixth and Shane Watson took wicket of Xavier Marshall lbw for 17 and the score came to 56 for three.
Denesh Ramdin was caught by Michael Hussey off Symonds for three.
Findlay continued to push on and made his second one-day 50 with a single
Johnson picked up his third wicket, bowling Daren Powell (10) comprehensively in the 36th over, The bowler grasped up the comfortable win - and his five-wicket haul - by taking the wicket of Fidel Edwards.
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