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New Zealand's cricketers will don their black kit this week and undergo the now-familiar metamorphosis from ordinary test lineup to competitive one-day unit.
While Scott Styris and Mark Gillespie are the only new additions to the squad soundly beaten 2-0 by England in the test series, confidence remains
that they can repeat their one-day international series win from February.
"It's a higher playing field for us, the way we've played one-dayers for a long time and with our world ranking, we're a lot more confident in that form of the game because it's shorter and we don't have to perform from those prolonged periods," captain Daniel Vettori said.
Just like in Manchester a fortnight ago, the tourists got the scheduled fifth day off after the humbling defeat, by an innings and nine runs, in the third test at Trent Bridge.
The Sunday crowd who flocked up Bridgeford Rd and Radcliffe Rd to enjoy a brilliant summer's day had just an hour's worth of cricket on day four.
They saw five wickets tumble, Ryan Sidebottom back in full flight, some futile power hitting from Jacob Oram, then basked in their team jogging a victory lap.
Meanwhile the shattered New Zealanders filed back to the Trent Bridge pavilion nursing their mental scars but needing to shake them off quickly for Friday's Twenty20 match in Manchester then the five-match one-day series, starting on Sunday in Durham.
In the interim they meet Worcestershire, whose star is former test paceman Simon Jones, in a warmup one-dayer on Wednesday.
"There's a group of guys that'll hurt for a long, long time in the dressing room but we know we have to pick it up because England do have the momentum," Vettori said.
"Their squad doesn't change all that much and ours doesn't change all that much.
"We beat them convincingly (3-1) back home and we've got to do make sure we do that again over here to get anything out of this tour at all."
New Zealand lost more points on the test ranking list where they still lie seventh, but will come under pressure from eighth-placed West Indies if they can upset Australia this week.
In ODIs, New Zealand are ranked third, a decimal place ahead of India.
New Zealand's next test tour isn't until early October, a two-test series in Bangladesh before two more in Australia in November.
While the batting faltered in two monumental collapses at Old Trafford and Trent Bridge, Jamie How, Ross Taylor and Daniel Flynn all hinted at long test careers.
Taylor's brilliant unbeaten 154 at Old Trafford will be hard to forget, despite some loose dismissals either side of it, while How braved a chipped bone in a finger to average 38 and Flynn showed the best technique in a gutsy 49 here after his Manchester dental drama.
"Ross' innings was a world-class 150 and if we can get him as a consistent performer; I think Jamie How's got a massive future as an opener and the determination of Daniel Flynn, to come back from what happened, all those things are encouraging but they're small things and we've got to grow them into something bigger if we want to be a decent test side," Vettori said.
Aaron Redmond and James Marshall's test futures are far less certain.
The bowling averages told the story of the series, with James Anderson and Ryan Sidebottom taking 19 and 17 wickets respectively, Monty Panesar spinning England to victory at Old Trafford while Vettori took New Zealand's only two five-bags, at Lord's and Old Trafford.
BLACK CAPS - ODI SCHEDULE
13 June - Twenty20, Old Trafford
15 June - 1st ODI, Durham
18 June - 2nd ODI, Edgbaston
21 June - 3rd ODI, Old Trafford
25 June - 4th ODI, The Oval
28 June - 5th ODI, Lord's
- NZPA
