He's back.
Martin Guptill used the occasion of the first T20I to be hosted at Dunedin's University Oval to announce that he's far from a spent force in the most dynamic form of the game.
Guptill scored 97 from just 50 balls. In doing so he struck eight sixes, taking him to 132 in T20Is, passing India's Rohit Sharma (127).
He was just inches from bringing up his third T20I century, being caught on the long off boundary when attempting his ninth six.
After a lean trot that extended to his form for Auckland in the Super Smash, Guptill had seen his stock on the T20 circuit fall.