BJ Watling scored a second unbeaten half-century as the New Zealand XI handed England a three-wicket defeat ahead of the first cricket Test.
Set 334 for victory on the final day of the four-day match, the home side reached the target with eight balls to go before stumps in Queenstown on Saturday.
Wicketkeeper Watling and Neil Wagner, two of five NZ XI players who are also in the Black Caps’ Test squad, saw their side through with an unbroken 52-run partnership off 55 balls.
Watling, who also took seven catches in the match, finished on 89 not out to go with his unbeaten 66 in the first innings, while Wagner was 28 not out.
The victory was a feather in the cap for the NZ XI’s 20-year-old skipper Tom Latham, who was given the captaincy after former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Luke Ronchi pulled out with injury.
Earlier, England declared on their overnight total of 256-9.
Latham and Hamish Rutherford, who are vying for one of the opening spots in the Test beginning in Dunedin on Wednesday, set the platform for the chase with their second stand of 56 in the match.
Rutherford, who hit a Stuart Broad delivery for six and was then hit in the head by a bouncer from the same bowler, was first to go for 33.
He was caught at point cutting a ball from Chris Woakes, before Broad struck in the next over, removing Carl Cachopa for a duck.
Latham and Broom then put on 64, before Latham was caught behind for 48 while trying to sweep.
When Broom (41) and Dean Brownlie (17) also went in the middle session, NZ XI were precariously placed at 154-5.
But Watling and Corey Anderson (44), who had put on a century stand in the first innings, got the home side back on track with an 82-run partnership for the sixth wicket.
For England, who rested front-line pace bowlers James Anderson and Steven Finn, the defeat was their first in a first-class tour match in almost seven years.