By 10pm, Finn Allen was walking off Eden Park with 71 next to his name after 29 balls of futuristic cricket. Allen's maiden 50 was the centrepiece of the Black Caps' imposing 141-4 off the allotted 10 overs as the Black Caps put a bold-type exclamation point on their extraordinary season. After eight overs Bangladesh were 70-8 needing 36 an over off the final two to win – not impossible, but pretty tricky all the same. Black Caps captain Tim Southee celebrates a catch against Bangladesh. They won all seven series, clean-sweeping four of them (and likely robbed by rain of making that five).

Source: New Zealand Herald April 01, 2021 10:07 UTC