mcCullum review of team

Some teams you tend to do better against than others," added McCullum."But they knocked us out of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy recently so they've also had some success against us in recent times as well.

"It's going to be a great series, we've got two evenly-matched teams and I guess whichever team can hit their straps and get hot for the couple of weeks we have during the one-day format it will probably be the team that comes out on top."

The second match in the Twenty20 series takes place in Christchurch on Thursday before the first of the five-match one-day series is held in Wellington on Saturday.

New Zealand Twenty20 squad: Brendon McCullum (wkt & capt), Jesse Ryder, Jamie How, Ross Taylor, Scott Styris. Jacob Oram, Peter Fulton, Kyle Mills, Paul Hitchcock, Chris Martin, Tim Southee, Jeetan Patel.

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