Glen Phillips and Mitch Santner have survived an intense examination after tea, steering New Zealand to a four-wicket victory over Bangladesh on the fourth day of the second test at Dhaka.
The Blackcaps arrived at the meal break, teetering at 90/6 in their quest for 137 runs, but the two batters broke the shackles somewhat after the resumption, rattling off the required runs in less than 10 overs.
First-innings hero Phillips clinched the result with his second boundary of the 40th over, topscoring again with 40 in 48 balls. At the other end, Santner finished unbeaten on 35 in 39.
The result sees New Zealand level the series 1-1, as they begin the next World Test Championship cycle with shared honours in hostile conditions, after losing the first test at Sylhet.
Before the 70-run partnership between Phillips and Santner, only opener Tom Latham had offered any real resistance, scratching out 26, until he was the fourth wicket to fall at 48 in the 21st over.
Fellow opener Devon Conway, Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls had all preceded him, with Williamson's again the key scalp for Bangladesh.
The world's top-ranked test batter was lured forward by Taijul Islam and caught out of his ground by wicketkeeper Nurual Hasan, when the ball spun past his bat. After notching up his 29th test ton in the series opener at Sylhet, Williamson could only manage 13 and 11 at Dhaka.
Daryl Mitchell was caught behind off his gloves for 19, trying to reverse sweep Mehidy Hasan Miraz, while keeper Tom Blundell fell cheaply in the following over.
The Kiwis were put under intense scrutiny by the Bangladesh fielders, who had many, many vociferous appeals turned down, several under review. The third umpire was called on 11 times over the course of the day, five of those coming from the home side in the field, as they tried to heap pressure on the batters.
Earlier, spinner Ajaz Patel spearheaded the bowling attack to dismiss Bangladesh before lunch.
After taking a slender eight-run lead from the first innings, thanks to Phillips' dogged 87 runs off 72 balls, the tourists had already made inroads into the Bangladesh batting order at 38/2 overnight.
They quickly captured the remaining eight wickets in the morning session, with Patel taking 6/57, as captain Tim Southee lent heavily on his spinners. Santner snared 3/65 in support of Patel.
Opener Zakir Hasan provided the most resistance among the batters, carving out a half century to anchor the innings. He and Mominul Haque put on 34 runs for the third wicket to start the day - the biggest partnership of the innings - but Hasan struggled to find support at the other end.
He was eventually the ninth wicket to fall, caught by Mitchell at slip, off Patel, with the score at 128. Tailenders Taijul Islam and Shoriful Islam put on 16 nuisance runs for the final wicket, before Patel finally had the latter stumped by Blundell to complete the rout.
NZ openers Conway and Latham survived three overs, both tempting fate with false shots, before lunch.
Both teams now travel to New Zealand, where Bangladesh begin a white-ball tour with a one-dayer at Dunedin on December 17.
Bangladesh 172 & 144 (Hasan 59; Patel 6/57) New Zealand 180 & 139/6 (Phillips 40no, Santner 38no, Latham 26; Miraz 3/536)
New Zealand win by four wickets, series drawn 1-1
