Overview
- New Zealand’s 323-run victory at Bay Oval completed a 2–0 triumph and moved them to second place early in the 2025–27 WTC cycle, with Australia still perfect on six wins.
- Jacob Duffy took 5/42 on the final day and was named Player of the Series after finishing with 23 wickets across the three Tests.
- Duffy closed 2025 with 81 international wickets, surpassing Sir Richard Hadlee’s New Zealand calendar-year mark of 79 set in 1985 and topping the global tally for the year.
- Openers Devon Conway and Tom Latham each scored centuries in both innings of the match, the first opening pair in Test history to achieve twin hundreds together; Conway also posted a double century and a century.
- Duffy’s form coincides with his IPL signing by Royal Challengers Bengaluru for INR 2 crore, drawing public praise from Ravichandran Ashwin, who called the deal an absolute steal.