As New Zealand's bowlers toiled unsuccessfully at Wellington's quaint old Basin Reserve on Saturday, the man they needed most was moving his way around the back of the committee room looking for a sandwich.
That's the view of the Australian media who say the Black Caps' bowling attack is not up to it.
"Sir Richard Hadlee might not strut with the same bustling demeanour he once did when there were Aussies in sight, but there's no doubt that the wicket in Wellington that Trent Boult and company failed to fire on would have once been his bread and butter," wrote Ben Horne in the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
"The Black Caps' insipid display with the ball was proof that for all the willingness of Boult and Tim Southee, there is nothing like a match-winner and it's something they simply don't have."
Horne wrote how Hadlee transformed New Zealand from minnows into a world force, "but as good as superstar batsman Kane Williamson might be, they now lack the strike power in their attack to go to the next level".
