He's so obsessed by the heroic Kiwi team that he's begun taking heat from his parents to wash his beloved Black Caps shirt - a birthday present inscribed with his surname, which he refuses to take off.
He'll probably be wearing it again tomorrow and reckons the as-yet undefeated Blacks Caps could pull off a historic victory in the cavernous cricket cauldron of the MCG.
"They're both really good teams but New Zealand is a very good squad and I think they'll just beat them."
Mr Hanna said late night sport often meant younger fans like Max missed out. But his son "leaped out of bed looking far better then I did on Wednesday morning", so he wasn't ruling out a late-night viewing session tomorrow.
Ponsonby Primary School principal Anne Malcolm expected a few "bleary-eyed" cricket fans in class come Monday morning.
"We'll just work a bit slower on the zone of proximal development."
She was comfortable about kids turning up a bit late as New Zealand making the World Cup final might be a once-in-a-lifetime event.
"I would imagine some of them will get more and more tired as the day goes on. But it's history."
