UAE VS NZ - 3rd T20I, New Zealand tour of United Arab Emirates, 2023

That's curtains on this hard-fought series. UAE tried some exciting talent and gave them some important game time. With more cricket, this team will only get better. Meanwhile, New Zealand head to England now for some white-ball games. There's plenty of cricket action across the globe. We'll cross paths again. Goodnight!

Tim Southee collects the big cup and his takes it to his team waiting in front of the champions board.

Tim Southee | NZ captain: Today was the best performance of this series, great to finish the series this way. Great to have the debutants today, they have done well with domestic performances. Knew it was going to be hot and sweaty here.

Mark Chapman | PoTS: It was nice for the boys to rebound and put a complete performance. Happy to win the series. They way Will played and put the pressure on the bowlers made our job easy. It's always tough, games against Test nations come so infrequently. In this format the Associate nations compete very well and I wish them all the best.

Will Young | PoTM: Interesting to sit the two games out. UAE are a fantastic side. I just had my game plan to go out there and do it. It looked a similar wicket to the first game. Bit two-paced early on but played out well later.

Muhammad Waseem | UAE captain: We were looking for a good start, unfortunately we didn't get that and we struggled in the middle overs too. Wicket was very good, 160 was chasable. Not getting the start was the key. I was going for the attack, personally I wanted to attack and wanted to get 50-55 runs in the powerplay. That's where I went wrong probably. Thankful to our supporters. I am pleased with the performance of our team.

21:24 Local Time, 17:24 GMT, 22:54 IST: This is a convincing win for New Zealand. The only game of the series where UAE were outplayed for a good part of the series. But what a show the hosts put on. In home conditions, they knew how to operate. Winning all three tosses did help, but New Zealand had to really work for their wins. 166 was an above par total for this pitch that's not really easy for strokeplay. Southee began with a maiden over, but Lister got the dangerman Waseem in his first over. Aravind, Aryansh promised for a while but Santner and Ashok were impressive with their spin bowling. Aayan Khan was the only batter who managed to middle most balls, but he didn't get enough help from Hameed or any other batter. Lister bowled well for three wickets. Stay tuned for the presentations...

Jamieson to Junaid Siddique, no run, Junaid Siddique walks across and looks to slog, Jamieson bowls wide of off and beats the bat. New Zealand win this game and series 2-1

Jamieson to Basil Hameed, 1 run, short of length delivery, Hameed pulls to deep backward square leg

Jamieson to Basil Hameed, no run, short of length delivery on the stumps, Hameed looks to slog, misses, ball bounces over the stumps

Jamieson to Basil Hameed, no run, slower delivery, Hameed looks to slog, gets an inside edge that rolls to the on-side

Jamieson to Basil Hameed, no run, slower delivery, Hameed taps it towards cover

Jamieson to Junaid Siddique, 1 run, Siddique backs away, Jamieson targets the base of the stumps, batter manages to toe-end it to the on-side

Jamieson to Junaid Siddique, 5 wides, oh dear, in an attempt to follow the batter Jamieson has sprayed it way down leg. Seifert gave a full length dive but couldn't get there

Kyle Jamieson [3.0-0-16-1] is back into the attack

Ben Lister to Basil Hameed, FOUR, shortish delivery, Hameed pulls, manages to time it decently for a boundary over mid-wicket

Ben Lister to Junaid Siddique, 1 run, pushed to mid-on

Junaid Siddique, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Ben Lister to Mohammed Faraazuddin, out Caught by Santner!! Catching practice again. Slower delivery outside off stump, Faraazuddin into the shot early, Faraazuddin chips it to hand at cover. Mohammed Faraazuddin c Santner b Ben Lister 0(2)

Ben Lister to Mohammed Faraazuddin, THATS OUT!! Caught!!