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Career bests for Conway, Mitchell, Neesham in Black Caps victory

19:04 pm on 26 March 2021

New Zealand has made a clean sweep of ODI series against Bangladesh with a 164-run in the final game in Wellington.

Devon Conway celebrates his first international century for New Zealand. Photo: Photosport

Centuries for Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell and a career-best wicket haul for Jimmy Neesham propelled the Black Caps to their third win of the series.

Opting to bat first, New Zealand were 57 for 3 before Conway got the home side's inning back on track scoring his first international century before getting caught on 126.

Mitchell's 100 was the other score of note, as he combined with Conway to add 159 in 24 overs for the fifth wicket.

However, Mitchell very nearly didn't reach the milestone, needing to scramble two runs off the final ball of the innings and capitalising on the wicketkeepers error to bring up three figures.

After a sedate start the Black Caps blasted 107 off the last 10 overs to finish the innings on 318-6.

In reply, Matt Henry quickly dislodged Bangladesh's top order to finish with 4-27 off his 10 overs.

Jimmy Neesham then took care of the lower order, picking up a career-best haul of 5-27 off 7.4 overs - including claiming the last two wickets in four balls.

Mahmudullah produced the only score of any substance for Bangladesh - reaching an unbeaten 76 off 73 balls in the losing effort.

Look back at how the match unfolded here.