Twose hopeful that he can help New Zealand's recovery

Roger Twose came through an indoor batting session at Hamilton's WestpacTrust Park today better than he expected although he was not prepared to say he was a 100% chance to play in tomorrow's fourth One-Day International against Sri Lanka.

With the National Bank series already decided in Sri Lanka's favour, Twose said there was still a lot for the CLEAR Black Caps to play for in terms of their personal pride.

It was important to win the remaining two games in order to be able to move into the Pakistan series with a little bit of confidence because there wasn't a lot in the side at the moment.

Of his own chances of playing in the side, he said his batting trial was less painful than he anticipated.

It's not 100 per cent.

"But I'm hopeful that it's going to be workable. I was hitting the ball with reasonable power when I was putting it to the test. I've had pain relief. I was trying to see if I could play with it with the pain and I felt I could but I just wanted to see the reaction.

I wanted to be able to see what I could do," he said.

Having had the trial it was then a case of waiting to see if there was any reaction with swelling developing in the hand.

He said he has a plastic cast that restricts the movement of the thumb and has been told he is not going to suffer any more damage. He would ice the hand overnight and use some anti-inflammatories and see how it worked out.

Twose said he was keen to help the side out of its form trough.

"We're all trying to lift ourselves from what is a very difficult situation.

"You [the media] must have some idea of what we're going through at the moment, everyone is trying but it doesn't seem to be enough.

"We are feeling reasonably low, at the same time we acknowledge we are trying to lift ourselves to feed off each other, but ultimately what counts is out in the middle," he said.