Kain, who was 19 not out, lauded newbie Clarkson for a stellar unbeaten 68 from 48 balls.
"It was a ridiculous knock from Clarky. He's just an 18-year-old boy but he lasted long enough to win us the match so that was something special," he said of the teenager who is just in his third T20 game as he helped chase down Auckland's 134-5 from 20 overs.
In fact, Clarkson is an equally adept seamer and one must wonder when captain Kruger van Wyk will throw him the ball in the white-ball format.
With the batting fireworks display out of the way in just a shade over five overs last night during the run chase, the most ardent of CD fans would have walked away from their TV sets in disappointment.
Aggression is great all the way up to the Black Caps but should there be an element of control somewhere in that CD to batting order?
The Stags' top-five batsmen had come and gone with not a single one of them getting into double figures.
What should have been a pedestrian walk across the park was fast becoming a crosscountry ritual up Te Mata Peak on a rainy day.
Van Wyk brought a semblance of maturity, deftly ticking over the strike to Dane Cleaver before the latter departed for eight runs.
Kain was hopfeul the CD batsmen weren't too far off finding their mojo.
"Crazy things happen in cricket so we [he and Clarkson] were trying to get the job done before the final over," he said.
The spinner hailed Aces spinner Tarun Nethula and Worker for their bowling but chastised himself. Andrew Mathieson was outstanding with Adam Milne.
"It's not too bad a wicket but it's two paced. I bowled cutters and they just stuck in the wicket and were hard to come out," he said of the drop-in strip at the rugby venue.
Kain said CD had got through by the skin of their teeth in the last two matches after a loss but they had to do much better.
He said Mahela Jayawardene in Nelson from next Thursday would be a buzz.
