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Australia pulled off a world-record run chase in Auckland, reducing Guptill's 49-ball hundred - and a host of other records - to a footnote. D'Arcy Short and Warner hammered aggressive fifties to set the tone of the reply and Australia's middle order kept the pedal to the metal at a stage and they get over the line with more than an over to spare.
The stands were peppered for 32 sixes - equalling the T20I record - as the odd-shaped boundaries at Eden Park produced a lop-sided match in which batsman were able to swing with impunity and bowling became an exercise in damage limitation. No team had successfully chased as many in all T20 cricket.
New Zealand were left to rue a passage at the back end of their innings when they didn't score a boundary for 18 balls, but the point at which the game tipped decisively came in the 17th over of the chase.
Australia needing less than a run a ball. Finch's unbeaten 36 off 14 provided a muscular contrast with the way New Zealand had faltered and he finished things off with the final six of a gluttonous encounter.
Australia fourth win from four in the tri-series left the home fans muttering quietly to themselves but would have been cheered down in Hamilton, as it helped keep England in with a chance of pipping a shell-shocked New Zealand to a place in the final.
Guptill also became the leading run-scorer in all T20 internationals, surpassing McCullum, while also striking the fastest hundred by a New Zealander and moving up above his former team-mate to second on the all-time six-hitting list, too.
New Zealand were left to rue a passage at the back end of their innings when they didn't score a boundary for 18 balls, but the point at which the game tipped decisively came in the 17th over of the chase.
Australia needing less than a run a ball. Finch's unbeaten 36 off 14 provided a muscular contrast with the way New Zealand had faltered and he finished things off with the final six of a gluttonous encounter.
Australia fourth win from four in the tri-series left the home fans muttering quietly to themselves but would have been cheered down in Hamilton, as it helped keep England in with a chance of pipping a shell-shocked New Zealand to a place in the final.
Guptill also became the leading run-scorer in all T20 internationals, surpassing McCullum, while also striking the fastest hundred by a New Zealander and moving up above his former team-mate to second on the all-time six-hitting list, too.
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