Having been soundly beaten in their first warm-up match against Australia at the weekend, New Zealand will search for some momentum against South Africa this afternoon in their final hit-out before the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
The Aussies made light work of the Black Caps in coasting to a 56-run victory on Saturday but allrounder Nathan McCullum said despite the lopsided result New Zealand were ready to get their house in order ahead of the global tournament that starts this week.
"Its always good to get in two warm-up games and try and test yourself and get some tactics and other things sorted out," McCullum said.
"Obviously things didn't go our way totally [against Australia] but we got some good things out of it, we got some bad things out of it. But at least we are learning lessons and we are moving forward and obviously the warm-up games that we've got are against different opposition than we are going to face in the first two games. So it's about us just getting used to the conditions really and seeing how we go and taking our time to get in to the swing of it before we hit the ground running in a few days time."
You can never read heavily in to results of warm-up games, but New Zealand would love to put in a decent performance in Colombo today before they open the Twenty20 World Cup proper against Bangladesh in Pallekele on Friday.
