New Zealand are now standing on 126 points, while the T20 world champions Windies have dropped from 120 points to 115 points in the fifth position.
With this hundred, Munro surpassed West Indies' Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis, India's Rohit Sharma and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, who all have two centuries in T20 internationals against their name.
The hosts have also included the spin duo of Mitchell Santner and Todd Astle in the squad announced on Monday by national selector Gavin Larsen.
New Zealand, who won the first match by 47 runs, were 102/4 when the rain became heavy enough to force the players to leave the field.
The last over of the New Zealand innings, bowled by Kesrick Williams, cost 25 runs and made a substantial difference between the teams, giving the hosts a competitive total on a slow wicket at Saxton Oval which made hard-hitting difficult.
"Left-handed batsman Shimron Hetmyer will replace all-rounder Kieron Pollard, who is unavailable due to personal reasons," West Indies Cricket Board said in a statement.
The T20I World Champions had a disastrous tour so far as they have suffered heavy defeats at the hands of New Zealand in both the Test (0-2) and the One-Day International (0-3) series.
The third ODI will be a dead rubber with New Zealand having already sealed the series 2-0 but there are enough reasons for the Windies to try their bench strength and make something out of it.
With no timeline set for de Grandhomme's comeback, Doug Bracewell has been roped in the ODI squad for the series which begins from December 20 at the Cobham Oval, Whangarei.
West Indies will have to beat their world record for the highest winning fourth innings score in Test cricket — currently 418 against Australia in 2003 — were 30/2 at stumps on day 3 against the hosts.
The initiative in the match passed from one team to the other until Gabriel made his mark with the second new ball to leave New Zealand 286/7 at stumps after it had lost the toss and been asked to bat.
The 28-year-old Southee was ruled out of his side's massive win by an innings and 67 runs in the opening Test in Wellington to attend the birth of his first child.
West Indies' second innings disintegrated around the lunch interval, with the arrival of the second new ball, the visitors lost its last eight wickets for just 88 runs.
Stokes scored only two runs in a seven-ball innings as Canterbury batted first, then took no wickets for 49 from nine overs as Otago passed Canterbury's total of 221 with three wickets and 15 balls to spare.
All-rounder de Grandhomme scored the second-fastest Test century by a New Zealander in a 148-run seventh wicket stand with Tom Blundell who became the third Kiwi wicketkeeper to make a half-century on his Test debut.
The New Zealand team will play only four Tests at home this summer — two against the West Indies over the next two weeks and two against England in March in a season otherwise heavy with one-day and T20 Internationals.
The 32-year-old sustained the injury, while warming up for his domestic side Northern Knights' opening match against the Central Stags in the Plunket Shield 2017-18.
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