New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori feels the ODI series win against Pakistan will be a huge morale boost ahead of the two T20 matches between the two sides in Dubai.

The Black Caps earned a nail-biting seven-run win over Pakistan in the third and final one-day game in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

But they were made to sweat as Pakistan tailenders Mohammad Aamer and Saeed Ajmal put on a final wicket stand of 103 before Ajmal holed out off Jacob Oram for 33 on the first ball of the final over.

His dismissal handed New Zealand a 2-1 win, their first away series victory over Pakistan.

"For us to come over here and win as confidently as we did in the last two games is something I know a lot of the guys will cherish," Vettori said.

"The wickets and the atmosphere are very similar to Pakistan - there's a lot of support for Pakistan here and it's like a Pakistan home game.

"The key thing is it's a victory and no matter how you achieve it, it's still a series win and tour wins for New Zealand sides away from home - we don't have that many."

New Zealand's innings of 211 all out was largely built on opener Brendon McCullum's knock.

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The wicket-keeper followed up his century in the previous match with 76 off 78 balls on Monday.

Pakistan's reply was looking all but over at 101 for nine in the 34th over until 17-year-old Aamer, whose unbeaten 73 was easily the highest by any number 10 batsman in one-day international history, steered his side to the brink of victory.

Vettori however, said he had remained confident of a win and was happy to toss the ball to Oram for the final over.

"I always backed us to get a wicket. I think when you only need one wicket you probably try a bit hard to get it. We backed Jacob to do it - he's bowled the last over a few times for us and he's done a really good job."

Vettori also singled out the performances of player of the series McCullum, along with Tim Southee, who took two for 26 off 10 overs.

"Brendon played exceptionally well again - he's probably the only batsman who made it look really easy in the last two games while everyone else struggled a bit.

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"Tim Southee was outstanding for a guy who's only played twenty-odd one-dayers.

"This shows the confidence of the team. There's still quite a lot of young inexperienced players in there and some guys really stepped up today. They'll take confidence from it and hopefully take it into the T20s as well."