New Zealand vs Pakistan, 3rd ODI at Mount Maunganui, NZ vs PAK, Apr 05 2025 - Match Result

Right then, the curtain falls and the tour ends. A lot of youngsters made their mark in both limited-overs series, especially Muhammad Abbas and Sufiyan Muqeem. We'll have Danyal's report up soon.

Keep enjoying your cricket and for now, from myself (Rvel Zahid), Rashad Mahbub, K. Vairavan and our entire team, it's goodbye!

Michael Bracewell, New Zealand Captain: Enjoyable day, always nice to finish the season on a high, wanted to put up a good performance in front of a great crowd, thankful we managed to do that. Wicket played well, credit to groundmen (after the relentless rain), thought it was a great game of cricket. Obviously a reduced one but enjoyable. With the reduced number of resources, you get a chance to put down the foot little bit earlier. It's pretty infrequent (to get spin) bit it was useful. The way bowlers bowled was outstanding. Pretty happy it stuck (on his spectacular catch). Seeing the guys come in and do well is most pleasing and winning series is added bonus. We are clear about the style we want to play...(on fast bowlers) they carried through to ODIs, pretty amazing to watch them, they are fast, aggressive and used their height and bounce. It was great to see different guys step up at different times. There were some great partnerships along the way. We found a way to get to an above par total and the way bowlers bowled, it was always going to be enough

Ben Sears, Player of the Series: It was cool couple of days, nice to get opportunity; just got a great group of guys. Coming in as first change, just trying to put an impact. I thought Duffy started off in great areas, built pressure and we keep that pressure going.

Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan Captain: It's a disappointing series. Positives for us is the good touch of Babar Azam and Naseem Shah's batting. Sufiyan bowled really well. I will give credit to New Zealand; they played really in all departments of the game. We need to play better against new ball. We will go back and discuss whatever we have learned from here. We are going to enjoy PSL; it's a big tournament for us. We couldn't do well in Champions trophy (and the series here) hopefully we will do well in PSL

Another convincing win by New Zealand on their home soil and they finish their summer on a high with a dominant 45-run victory and a thoroughly impressive series. Once again, Pakistan were doing well and getting partnerships going but it has almost become a pattern for them to lose their way and it's quite predictable how a door opens and then wickets start to fall in succession. No big scores and a low conversion rate meant Pakistan were always catching up. Another phenomenal bowling performance from New Zealand. Sears picked a fifer, Duffy with two vital wickets and Abbas and Mitchell chipped in with one wicket apiece. The hosts sign off their summer with smiles and resounding success. A job well done and New Zealand will be mighty pleased with their bench strength while Pakistan have a lot of soul-searching to do and need to go back to the drawing board

Ben Sears - first NZ bowler to take five-fors in consecutive men's ODIs.

Faisal: "Nightmare tour ended for Pakistan. Positivity is only Akif javed and Sufyan muqeem. Big question marks on Rizwan and his claim of Intent "

KiwiFan: "So in last 2 months - Kiwis have whitewashed Pakistan in 3 series Tri series : 2-0CT : 1-0 Home series : 3-0 (not to forget T20 : 4-1) It's time Pakistan take some breather "

Saifi: "Pakistan simply lack match winners, neither their batters with high averages win games nor they have players like Stoinis or Hardik who come in late and smash opposition to win them games. Perhaps Pakistan's only match winners were bowlers who lost the plot completely and have been getting hammered by all teams. Moreover Saim and Fakhar could've won us a game or two, had they been here"

What just happened there? It's another bizarre incident, that was a menacing bumper at him, and just at the moment when it arrived at Tayyab, the floodlights went out! He got out of the way at the last moment and could see in the shadow. Lights are back on

Zaigham: "You're also spot on about the real issue -- Pakistan's fragile middle order. If you dig into the stats, you'll notice most of the middle-order batters have averages well below 30 in both T20Is and ODIs. That's just not good enough at the international level, especially when you're playing against strong bowling attacks. (2/4)"

Karthik : "Pakistan should let bat, Naseem Shah up in the order. He shows more intent than their batters. An attacking batter. Can he Steve smith of Pakistan??"