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MELBOURNE - The Australian cricket team are set to use the Brad Haddin-Daniel Vettori spat as motivation when they bid to break a long losing streak on Friday.
Australia and New Zealand are waging a war of words over the dismissal of New Zealand batsman Neil Broom during the tourists' two-wicket win in the opening one-day international in Perth on Sunday.
New Zealand captain Vettori claimed Haddin knew his gloves were in front of the stumps when a ball from Michael Clarke was ruled to have bowled Broom.
Haddin has rejected the claim and said the ball hit the bails first before landing in his gloves.
Australian paceman Nathan Bracken said the side was concentrating on breaking its string of four straight one-day losses when it meets New Zealand at the MCG on Friday and may talk about the incident.
"If we want to win this series we've got to play good cricket and if it means we've got to use that as a motivational thing then we have to," Bracken said.
He maintained that the issue would help the team rather than disrupt it.
"I don't think it's going to distract us," he said.
"I know as a team that we pull together, we always have in tough times and not winning cricket games is probably enough motivation.
"Now obviously with Hadds having that accusation put towards him, he wasn't happy how it was done, but that's up to him to decide (how to respond).
"I was at backward square and it looked quite good from where I was - but you can't really tell much out there.
"It comes down to we obviously have to pull together, we don't have a choice."
Haddin described Vettori as "low" for making public comments before talking to him directly.
- AAP
