New Zealand will face a more disciplined West Indies team - Wright

New Zealand can expect to meet a much more disciplined West Indies team, on their tour starting next week, than the side which toured here in 1999/00.

That team lost both Tests and suffered a clean sweep of defeats in the five One-Day Internationals.

That's the view of former New Zealand captain John Wright, who has been coaching the Indian team during their tour which has seen the West Indies take the Test series 2-1. A five-match one-day series is just about to start.

"They looked a pretty good unit," he told CricInfo today.

"We're disappointed, we should have played a lot better in the last Test.

"They batted very well, and batted in depth. We had eight hundreds scored against us.

"They are a lot tougher now. They are like us, they find it hard to win away from home but only South Africa and Australia have beaten them at home amongst all countries for the last 10 years," he said.

Wright said the opening combination of Wavell Hinds and Chris Gayle was a good one while Ramnaresh Sarwan was a very solid batsman. Brian Lara had been a little out of touch while the tail-enders didn't offer too much trouble with the bat.

"They have four quicks again and they have been bowling good patterns.

"Mervyn Dillon and Cameron Cuffy have been very disciplined and both bowled well against us," he said.

They were not fast bowlers in the most recent West Indies mould.

"Adam Sanford gets it through but Dillon and Cuffy are not out-and-out quick bowlers, they are not by any means express," he said.

New Zealand leave for their tour on Tuesday. They play five One-Day Internationals and two Test matches in Barbados and Grenada.