NZ VS AUS - 3rd T20I, Australia tour of New Zealand, 2024

Mitchell Marsh receives the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy and asks his team-mates to come and join him for the photographs. So the T20I series belonged to the Aussies and we now move on to the longer format. The Blackcaps will lock horns with Australia in a 2-match Test series starting February 29th. Can the hosts manage to take revenge of the T20Is in the 5-day format? Only time will tell. Do join us for the coverage of the Test series between the Trans-Tasman rivals. For now, it's a goodbye from Nikhil, Anurag and Vinod. Ciao!

Matthew Wade: Our bowlers were unbelievable, was a clinical bowling performance. The way Short batted, it was fantastic. Everyone is enjoying their cricket. Everyone knows the World Cup's coming up. We have a good batting line up and the bowlers are doing a good job, it's nice to see the depth in the side. Credit goes to the support staff for their homework. This venue, wasn't a happy hunting ground for us before today, but the bowlers got some help, it was a really good performance.

Mitchell Santner: They are a quality side, they showed us the power they posses throughout the series. We showed some good stuff, we can back well with the ball. We couldn't soak up the pressure with the bat. Dropped catches don't help either. The depth of the squad is good, we'll have few guys coming back in. Some good stuff to take from this series, some bad stuff as well.

Marsh, Player of the Series: Nice to contribute to the winning team, nice to win a series in New Zealand. It was a fantastic effort to win 3-0. Our coaching staff, the group makes the job easy. It's a great bunch. Any series you win, playing for your country is fantastic. They are an outstanding unit NZ. Johnson bowled well today, everyone is grabbing their opportunities.

Matthew Short, Player of the Match: I am most comfortable while playing shots. Was a strange game with rain around. Played plenty of shots though. It's such a strong squad, really grateful to play with these guys. Enjoyed batting, but I was nervous with the ball towards the end.

16:51 Local Time, 03:51 GMT, 09:21 IST: A comfortable victory for Australia who clinch the series by a 3-0 margin. They won the first T20I as David played a blinder towards the end, while they registered a clinical win in the second T20I. Coming into the third clash, New Zealand were expected to get a consolation win, but the visitors were relentless once again. Having been put in to bat first, the Australian batters - especially Maxwell and Short, they played cameos, while Travis Head chipped in with a handy contribution as Australia finished with a pretty good total despite multiple rain delays. The revised target for NZ was 126 in 10 overs, and the hosts couldn't really get going in the run chase. Young and Phillips struck a few boundaries, but Australia kept taking wickets at regular intervals, bowled plenty of dot balls and defended the total nonchalantly. Johnson was the pick of the bowlers as he got a wicket and his economy was really impressive as well. So was Nathan Ellis who bowled a couple of excellent overs. A team effort by the Australians across all three games and they deserved to win as they were clearly the better side.

Matthew Short to Chapman, FOUR, Australia win by 27 runs (DLS method.) This is Australia's 100th victory in T20Is. Full and quick on leg, Chapman swings hard, gets an inside edge past the stumps for four runs. Handshakes all around as the rain-curtailed game finally comes to an end..

Matthew Short to Chapman, 2 runs, yorker length ball on off, Chapman squeezes it to wide long-off for a brace

Matthew Short to Glenn Phillips, 1 run, yorker length ball on middle and leg, Glenn Phillips digs it towards long-on for one

Matthew Short to Chapman, 1 run, flat-bats this flatter delivery to long-on for a single

Matthew Short to Glenn Phillips, 1 run, full and straight on middle and leg, lofted to wide long-on for a single

Matthew Short to Glenn Phillips, SIX, tossed up delivery on off, Glenn Phillips spanks it over the bowler's head for half-a-dozen

Matthew Short [1.0-0-18-1] is back into the attack

Equation: 43 runs required in 6 balls..

Nathan Ellis to Glenn Phillips, 1 run, yorker length on middle and leg, squeezed off the toe end to the on-side for one

Nathan Ellis to Glenn Phillips, FOUR, short ball on leg, Glenn Phillips flicks it past the fielder at short fine leg for a boundary

Nathan Ellis to Chapman, byes, 1 run, full and wide outside off, Chapman goes for a drive, gets beaten. Phillips once again steals a bye

Nathan Ellis to Glenn Phillips, 1 run, low full toss on off, Glenn Phillips squeezes it to long-on for a single

Nathan Ellis to Chapman, byes, 1 run, slower bouncer around off, Chapman goes for a pull, gets beaten and Phillips manages to steal a bye

Equation: 51 runs required in 11 balls..