Matthew Hayden anchored Australia's innings of 5-346 with Australia's highest one-day international innings, 181 off 166 balls, in a belligerent display of power-hitting in the final Chappell-Hadlee Trophy match at Hamilton's Seddon Park on Tuesday which the Aussies lost.

He also set an Australian record of 10 sixes in an innings, breaking Ricky Ponting's nine in an innings set in South Africa last year, achieving both records in the last over of the innings. It was the equal eighth-highest individual innings in ODI history.

New Zealand achieved the most amazing victory of its one-day international history when chasing down a 347-run target to beat Australia by one wicket and achieve a clean sweep in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series.

It was an unbelievable achievement, with three balls left, especially when it was 4-41 after only nine overs. Brendon McCullum got the side home with 86 runs off 89 balls.

The side advanced its effort from Auckland on Sunday which was the second highest run chase when scoring 337 to win.

As is now normal for these matches, it went to the wire with Mark Gillespie run out off the eighth last ball for an opportunistic 28 off 15 balls.

It left only Jeetan Patel to help Brendon McCullum achieve the win, which lifts New Zealand to third in the ODI rankings, in the last over bowled by Nathan Bracken.

But McCullum sent the crowd ballistic when calmly smiting the first ball for six runs to tie the scores.

Craig McMillan broke the record for the fastest ODI century by a New Zealander when blasting the Australian attack to pass the mark off 67 balls, breaking Jacob Oram's record of 71 balls set in Perth earlier in the summer. McMillan slammed 12 fours and five sixes.

He reached his 50 off 39 balls after the innings was given initial impetus by Peter Fulton who set a swashbuckling example after New Zealand had slumped to an improbable 41-4.

Fulton thrashed 51 off 40 balls, and then Brendon McCullum joined McMillan and they put on 100 runs off 81 balls to make the impossible possible. Their stand of 165 off 147 balls was a record for the sixth wicket for New Zealand against all countries, breaking the 34-year-old record set by Bevan Congdon and Ken Wadsworth in Christchurch against Australia.

It was McMillan's third ODI century, and his highest score. Once reaching the mark, he abandoned the outright attacking style while taking a breather and eventually when trying to up his rate an inside edge from Shane Watson's bowling saw him dismissed for 117 from 96 balls.

McCullum was content to let McMillan lead the way, although he brought up his fifth half-century from 66 balls. Once reaching 57 he achieved his highest score in ODIs.

He lost James Franklin and Daryl Tuffey but then found a most unlikely ally in Mark Gillespie who squeezed 14 runs from the first over he faced from Shane Watson.

New Zealand was always ahead of the required run rate, it just lacked the wickets.

New Zealand was 5-179 at the 25 overs mark, Australia at the same stage was 0-120. At 30 overs New Zealand was 5-212 and Australia was 1-142.

After the superlative batting of the Australians, spearheaded by an Australian record innings of 181 not out by Matthew Hayden, the New Zealanders' unforced errors looked set to undermine their chance.

Captain Stephen Fleming was first to depart, for nine, when square leg fieldsman Brad Hodge dived to pluck the catch out of the air.

Then Lou Vincent (11) had a leading edge fly to Brad Hogg in the cover point region.

Scott Styris was out for a duck when edging Mitchell Johnson to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.

It was a carefully-paced innings, in perfect batting conditions by Hayden, who took 127 balls with eight fours and two sixes to score his century after he saw Australia to 200 by the 38th over.

He shared an opening stand of 122 with Shane Watson, who was trapped leg before wicket by off-spinner Jeetan Patel, after a near run-a-ball innings of 68 off 69 balls.

In such perfect batting conditions, it was not a memorable match for bowlers and James Franklin, the New Zealand left-armer proved the exception to the rule with his 10 overs costing only 43 runs. Gillespie had 2-83 and Jeetan Patel 2-70.

Johnson went for 3-81 from his 10 while Watson had 2-88.

Australian innings
Hayden not out 181 (166)
Watson lbw b Patel 68 (69)
Haddin c Vincent b Tuffey 38 (31)
Hodge b Patel 12 (10)
Hussey c McCullum b Gillespie 13 (8)
White c Styris b Gillespie 13 (8)
Voges not out 16 (10)
Extras 5 (1 b, 1 lb, 1w, 2nb)
Total 346 (5 wickets; 50 overs)

FoW: 1-122, 2-210, 3-253, 4-279, 5-302

Bowling
Tuffey 10-0-68-1
Franklin 10-0-43-0
Gillespie 10-0-83-2 (1nb)
Patel 10-0-70-2 (1w)
Styris 8-0-52-0
McMillan 2-0-28-0

New Zealand innings
Vincent c Hogg b Tait 11 (13)
Fleming c Hodge b Tait 9 (11)
Taylor c and b Bracken 11 (12)
Styris c Haddin b Johnson 0 (7)
Fulton c Hussey b Watson 51 (40)
McMillan b Watson 117 (96)
McCullum not out 86 (89)
Franklin c Voges b Johnson 2 (5)
Tuffey c Haddin b Johnson 8 (8)
Gillespie run out 28 (15)
Patel not out 0 (0)
Extras 27 (4 lb, 22 w, 1 nb)
Total 350 (9 wickets; 49.3 overs)

FoW: 1-23, 2-34, 3-38, 4-41, 5-116, 6-281, 7-285, 8-303, 9-339

Bowling
Bracken 9.3-0-44-1 (3w)
Tait 10-0-60-2 (3w)
Johnson 10-0-81-3 (2w)
Watson 10-0-88-2 (1nb, 1w)
Hogg 7-0-40-0 (1w)
Voges 3-0-33-0