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Another World Cup will be a tournament too far for Stephen Fleming, but he's confident there's a lot more runs to flow from his cricket bat.
Fleming abdicated from the one-day captaincy immediately after the Black Caps' semifinal loss to Sri Lanka last week with the aim of being a specialist batsman.
He wants to remain as test skipper when New Zealand tour South Africa in October.
Fleming was in the first group of Black Caps to arrive home from the West Indies today.
The 34-year-old said there was no possibility of him being in the frame when the next World Cup is staged on the Indian subcontinent in four years.
How much longer he had in the one-day game was up to the selectors.
"I'm not in a position where I can write my own script," he said.
"What I have to do is to get runs and get them consistently.
"By declaring the one-day captaincy, I've put all my eggs in the one basket because I just want to test myself to see how good I can be without the pressure of captaincy.
"I certainly believe there's more runs for me to come. I just have to prove myself."
Fleming said the overwhelming feeling among the Black Caps after New Zealand were knocked out at the semifinal stage for the fifth time was one of "incredible disappointment".
"That's probably something that's not come through," he said.
"Winning the World Cup was something we talked about all the way through and if you come up short, you're always disappointed."
Fleming said the fact that the only teams to beat New Zealand during the tournament were the two who made the final -- champions Australia and Sri Lanka -- was a minor consolation.
He said the issue of the coaching job was out of his hands, but he backed the retention of John Bracewell, whose contract expires in August.
"I think what he has done in the past few years has been very good, especially in past 12 to 18 months," he said.
"It's only my opinion and I've read a lot of opinions to the contrary, so it's going to be an interesting time for New Zealand cricket."
As for his tip for his replacement as one-day skipper, he said Daniel Vettori had been groomed over the past 12 months to stand in as captain if needed during the World Cup.
"He's a fine leader and there are fine leaders within the side," he said.
"That's why I'm confident that leadership is not going to be an issue in both forms of the game going forward."
Fleming will have a couple of weeks off being returning to English county cricket with Nottinghamshire.
"I've got things to work on," he said.
"I felt my batting at the World Cup was pretty close to as good as I can be. I'm not sure I got the rub of the green throughout the tournament, but that's cricket."
The elegant left-hander has played 280 one-day internationals, 218 of them as captain.
He has amassed 8037 runs, for an average of 32.40 and a strike-rate of 71.49. His innings include eight centuries, including a highest score of 134 not out, and 49 half-centuries.
- NZPA
