A record blitz by Jamie How and Peter Ingram has consigned perennial underachiever Wellington to the HRV Cup wooden spoon, winning a run-fest by 53 runs at Pukekura Park on Wednesday.
The match had nothing riding on it except the desire to avoid last place and panned out to also be a chance for CD openers How and Ingram to write their name into the record books.
Their incredible stand of 201 off 16.4 overs is comfortably the best New Zealand domestic effort for any wicket, beating Martin Guptill and Lou Vincent's mark of 149, also against Wellington in 2009/10.
It is now also the best opening partnership of all time, beating Hamish Marshall and Kevin O'Brien's 192 for Gloucestershire.
It could have been the highest partnership in Twenty20 history but fell five short of Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh's 206 for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.
Captain How made 102 off 48 balls, with his ton coming off 45 balls and included eight fours and as many sixes.
Ingram fell an agonising three runs short of a deserved century when he was bowled by Andy McKay, the only Wellingtonian to come out of the innings with any merit in taking 1-31. Ingram faced 54 balls and struck six fours and eight sixes.
Every other bowler from the capital went in excess of 10 runs an over on the picturesque postage stamp ground in New Plymouth.
Another record narrowly missed was the highest domestic Twenty20 total in the country, which is still held by Auckland with 229. Funnily enough, that was also against Wellington.
It was always going to be a bridge too far for Wellington and only talented young opener Michael Pollard, with 53 off 35, got anywhere near a score of real substance.
James Franklin also made 27 off 15 but lacked support around he and Pollard.
Doug Bracewell, who had earlier struck 17 not out off 13 balls, did the damage with the ball with 3-21 while Kieran Noema-Barnett (2-39) and Adam Milne (2-32) were other multiple wicket-takers.
Wellington's two-win, seven-loss record leaves them firmly rooted to the bottom and leaves new coach Jamie Siddons plenty to work on for next year.
They had the services of a genuine match-winner in Muttiah Muralitharan and the well-performed Zimbabwean batsman Brendan Taylor but got precious little out of anyone else apart from the usual suspects of Franklin, McKay and Pollard.
CD will finish fourth or fifth, depending on whether Otago beats Northern Districts on Thursday.