The 22-year-old was playing only his seventh T20 international and his four overs cost just 18 runs.
Even though it was a slowish pitch, Milne was sufficiently slippery to have the speed radar clock him above 150km/h three times.
The point is that it was a chance for Milne to re-emphasise why he should be in New Zealand's World Cup squad.
Pitches in New Zealand, particularly Eden Park, Napier's McLean Park and, reportedly, the new block at Christchurch's Hagley Oval, will aid the fast men who pitch up here in early February.
Don't be put off by the Palmerston North man's figures, which are unexceptional. Seven ODIs, two wickets at 106 apiece is misleading in terms of his potential.
He had a rough start in the 50-over game, and he's had his injury setbacks. Now he's fit and certainly firing.
Perhaps the ball of the night was a yorker which flew under Haris Sohail's bat, easily beating the defensive stroke for pace and missed the off stump by a blink.
4-0-18-0. Rarely have those figures been so misrepresentative.
During the Georgie Pie Super Smash, in limited appearances Milne took five wickets for Central Districts at a strike rate of 19.2 and economy rate of 6.06 runs an over.
Considering his pace, to concede only six runs an over is highly impressive.
Average leaking seven an over and you're considered a highly impressive operator in the shortest game.
The good news for New Zealand is that they now have someone who can provide genuine zip in league with the game's fastest.
Of New Zealand's World Cup fast-medium contenders, Tim Southee and Trent Boult are resting up at home ahead of the arrival of Sri Lanka shortly before Christmas.
Kyle Mills, at 35 and with 236 wickets from 166 ODIs, will figure in the UAE in the next couple of weeks, as will Milne, Mitchell McClenaghan, whose 50 wickets in 24 games have been achieved faster by only one bowler, and Matt Henry.
They all have certain qualities, but none has Milne's speed.
And that's his point of difference, and why he should be among the 15 players to be named next month for the world cup.
Yesterday's win was Pakistan's 50th in 84 T20 internationals.
They are the first to reach that mark and looked a decent outfit, steered to the win by wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed, who appeals as a top class allround operator.
ODI cricket is significantly different to T20. It is far more challenging than the shorter version and clearly more prone to vagaries of fortune over the course of its 100 overs than the 40 of T20.
Still, you get little pointers from it of what might be possible.
Milne is a prime case. A big summer could lie in store.
David Leggat: Shadow has been cast but the game will go on
It happened on the 26th ball of yesterday's T20 international in Dubai. And it will happen again, and again in the coming weeks and months.
Corey Anderson, facing his third ball, charged at giant left armer Mohammad Irfan and swung across the line, hard, at a short ball.
But he misjudged it and the sharp delivery from the 2m tall Irfan - who regularly delivered in the mid 140 km/h range yesterday - flew up and crashed into the grill of his helmet.
Anderson briefly inspected the damage, confirmed to Pakistan's captain Shahid Afridi that he was okay and settled back over his bat.
The memory of Phillip Hughes' fateful shot, or mis-shot, and its fatal consequences will linger over cricket for some time.
But the game will go on. Bouncers will be bowled, players struck, often painful blows.
In fact, Pakistan's bowlers didn't seem averse to dropping in the occasional short flier at Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson on that third day of the third test in Sharjah, the day after Hughes died.
In that instance, however, a fat lot of good in did them as the New Zealand pair rewrote the batting record books.
There have been all sorts of thoughts running around the game in the wake of Hughes' accident.
Ban bouncers. Don't ban bouncers. Improve helmet technology. Tighten education around batting techniques.
Bouncers cannot be banned. They have been part of cricket since the game began.
In fact the threat of physical harm from fast bowlers is not at a peak now. Compare it with the Bodyline series and Harold Larwood in the early 1930s; or Lillee and Thomson getting all mean, macho and magnificent in the mid-1970s; or the West Indies four-pronged threat which lasted a decade. They were often violent days.
Certainly look into ways of improving helmets, but accept that what happened at the Sydney Cricket Ground early last week was, when boiled down, a simple, devastating accident.
Australian cricket gets back on the field next week when the rearranged test series with India starts, not as scheduled in Brisbane but in Adelaide.
Once Hughes' funeral was confirmed for the day before the Gabba test was to begin there was clearly no hope of that happening.
How will the Australian players, especially those like captain Michael Clarke and opener David Warner, react? They were tight with Hughes through his New South Wales connections, before he headed to South Australia.
Plenty of tears have been shed. Clarke has referred to Hughes as the brother he never had.
Emotions will be running high. Relations between India and Australia have not been great for some time. You would hope things don't get nasty and it will be interesting to see the level, and strength, of any verbal exchanges.
On the back of pleas for the sledging and unpleasantness to end, how long will that last, once the competitive juices start flowing again?
It was back to business in Dubai yesterday. It may be instructive keeping an eye on events in Adelaide next week.
