For someone who had his international baptism at the brunt of bolshy Pakistan batsmen in 2010 as an 18-year-old, Milne needs no reminding that the faster you go, the bigger the mess.
That doesn't mean the paceman - who can whip up deliveries past the 150km/h mark - is shy about breaking out of his cocoon after gradually working with Black Caps and former CD bowling coach Shane Bond.
"It's always good to bowl against the best," Milne said of the MS Dhoni-captained India who didn't waste any time arriving in Napier on Tuesday.
The tourists seem to be just as eager to find middle stump on Phi Stoyanoff's strip of batting paradise, if net bashing this week from the likes of Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Shikar Dhawan is anything to go by.
"It always seems to have good pace and bounce but not enough seam movement, so if you're not accurate you can go the distance so it's important to be on the money," a circumspect Milne said at the prospect of giving the rock stars of cricket a hurry up in the five-match series.
"They are not No1 in the world [ODI rankings] for nothing. They have good experience and good youth as well so they put it to good use for some serious performances over the last few years. It's going to be tough."
As world No8, the Kiwis' dress rehearsal against an anaemic Windies is over.
While the public seduction is with his express pace, Milne will need to be equally adept in bowling claustrophobic line and length or else the blokes wearing the orange T-shirts will be in for a $100,000 windfall.
His Stags coach, Heinrich Malan, is resigned to not seeing much of Milne this summer.
"He's done his time. He's bowling very well and he's got his rhythm to where it should be in the Black Caps," says the South African in his first season at the helm of CD.
Malan understands the public infatuation with the excitement machine and accepts there's not too many blokes around the world who can whip the ball through at the 150km/h-plus pace.
"He's a young guy and he'll get stronger. Any team in the world will have a guy like him," he says, adding the CD boys will follow his progress and "get on the blower to congratulate him when he does well".
Milne felt like he had made his international debut in Auckland against the Windies in the T20 match last Saturday with a solid performance to exorcise some demons.
"I felt like I'd turned the corner a little bit but at the same time I accept it'll be a tough ask to pull out those performances every time.
"It's just about trying to maintain my aggression and to keep attacking the batsmen."
Milne attributes his mental and physical growth to time spent in domestic cricket with CD, the green face paint he sported while meeting with Camp Quality children with cancer yesterday perhaps symbolic of his loyalty to his major association.
"I was pretty skinny and runty when I first played so I'm coming into my body a little bit more and have become a bit more mature."
He wouldn't change his debut against Pakistan for anything.
"You can never take away international debuts. Some people have bad ones and some have good ones.
"Unfortunately I had a couple of bad ones so I didn't play for a while after that but it also gave me knowledge of what I need to do to be good at this level."
He is banking on further growth spurts to become a more adroit bowler.
Having measured his run-ups a few times at domestic level at a hollow McLean Park, Milne will probably find the cacophony of a packed stadium is the ideal catalyst to take him to new heights.
Veteran Kyle Mills, Tim Southee and ex-CD leftie Mitchell McClenaghan will be up against Milne.
In the washed-out ODI against the Windies early this month, Mills expressed his dismay at how inhospitable McLean Park wickets had been to bowlers in the 12 years he had been coming here.
Will the selectors see that mindset as a liability? Asked if head groundsman Stoyanoff would allow a film of greenish tinge to sprout, a grinning Milne had his reservations.
"I'd like to see it but I don't think it's going to happen.
"It's usually a pretty flat wicket that offers pace and bounce so it should still be all right for the bowlers."
McCullum had given him licence to open throttle in the T20s against the Windies and not worry about haemorrhaging runs.
"He said, 'Look, take wickets because in T20s it can change the game', so I guess it's the same in one-dayers."
Former Kiwi international Gary Troup yesterday recalled playing a test against Pakistan in Napier in 1979.
"We could have played for 10 days it was so good, beautiful for batsmen," said the 61-year-old Aucklander who was at Lindisfarne College as chairman of Camp Quality.
"It'll be a high-scoring game and that's the reputation it has but, at the end of the day, you have to bowl in the conditions."
The medium/fast left-armer, who played 15 tests and 22 ODIs, toured India in 1976. The opening test match at Kanpur was a memorable one for the then 23-year-old who claimed a leg-before-wicket maiden wicket on debut.
"I bowled against Sunil Garvaskar so I bowled against one of the greats," said Troup, whose career ended in 1986.
India, Troup said, were the benchmark for the rest of the world.
"If we can do well against them in the tour then it'll be fantastic."
At 1.95m tall, Troup did hurry up batsmen but in his day they didn't have radars to clock speed.
"There's a fine line between how express that pace is and the ability to move the ball.
"Fortunately Adam is still able to move the ball, which is a great asset, and bowl it quick," he said.
The Black Caps' bowling stocks impress Troup.
"In the current environment we have a world-class bowling attack.
"We're not just talking about pace but we're talking about all-round attack.
"Our seam attack is extraordinarily good. We've got back up, we've got depth."
Troup said the objective in tomorrow's ODI would be to be restrictive.
"Okay, it's a nice way to get wickets to send batsmen back to the hut to stop them scoring but, if we can restrict them, then it's up to our batsmen to go out and get some runs." CD batsman Ross Taylor and ex-CD rep Jesse Ryder were in good form to boost New Zealand's hopes.
