Australia's selections 'good planning' - Bracewell

John Bracewell, the New Zealand coach, has no problem with Australia resting their captain Ricky Ponting and their opener Matthew Hayden for the Twenty20 match between the two sides on Tuesday. Bracewell said the selections were simply examples of Australia's good planning rather than disrespect to New Zealand.

"I think they take their cricket extremely seriously," Bracewell told AAP. "And I think the fact they play so much cricket they have just got to be sensible about it.

"They are world leaders in their planning, the way they planned through to the last World Cup and peaked at that ... were great lessons to all planners. We have looked at the blueprint of that and we have just got to have the depth to do it."

Australia lost the Chappell-Hadlee Series last time it was played, in February, when they rested Ponting and Adam Gilchrist in the lead-up to the World Cup. However, they have chosen a full-strength side for this month's three-match series.

Bracewell said he hoped the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy would remain a regular contest. "It is extremely important to our calendar year, and our cricket and a measure of where we are," Bracewell said.

"We do simply look forward to playing Australia. It is nice to have a trophy attached to it, and follow the Bledisloe Cup type mentality. Any trans-Tasman rivalry is something New Zealanders look forward to."

Justin Vaughan, New Zealand Cricket's chief executive, will press the importance of the event when he meets his Cricket Australia counterpart James Sutherland during the current tour. Sutherland has reportedly been reluctant to guarantee the future of the Chappell-Hadlee Series.

Vaughan hopes next year's five-ODI series in Australia - as part of Australia's new summer program with no tri-series - will be recognised under the Chappell-Hadlee title despite having a sponsor's name attached to it. "If you look at the Bledisloe Cup, I'm sure there's a series sponsor for that, but that doesn't stop them playing for the Bledisloe Cup," Vaughan told the New Zealand Herald.

"We need to figure that out, but what we want a commitment for - and I know Cricket Australia are keen to go along with it - is in years we don't have scheduled games against Australia, that we do get additional Chappell-Hadlee games into the calendar. We just have to figure our way through it."