Loss not good enough

I hope I am wrong but right now I doubt New Zealand have the goods to take a series from Australia. They know they will be judged on this series but a pass mark should not be a series win, writes Mark Richardson in the Herald on Sunday.

We expected Australia to be a class above the Black Caps and they were; we expected Shaun Tait and Dirk Nannes to bowl fast and they did; we expected our batsmen to struggle with the pace of Tait and Nannes and they did; we expected Mitchell Johnson to continue to dominate our batsmen and he did; we expected Shane Watson to play just as well with his mouth as with bat and ball and he did; and we might just have expected Billy Bowden to have one of those moments and for that 'whoopsy' to favour Australia. He did.