New Zealand held their nerves admirably to make it a hat-trick of ICC event final entrances, trumping England in a see-sawing semi-final clash in Abu Dhabi. You would feel they are too nice to believe in revenging anything, even if it is as bitter as the fateful 2019 ODI World Cup loss, so let’s put it this way: the scores are settled. And in doing so, New Zealand have made it to the finals of a tournament no one counted them as the favourites of.