Travel's a great way to learn

"Those who take Daniel Vettori at face value have him all wrong," writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald. "The New Zealand captain is amiable, polite and well spoken. When he made the national side at 17 he could have been confused for a choir boy. But those assuming his mild demeanour translates to a gentle-minded leader, reluctant to speak his mind, should think again. Vettori displayed a firm and forthright tongue during New Zealand's poor Chappell-Hadlee Trophy campaign in Australia."

David Leggat also outlines five things we learnt about New Zealand from their 0-2 defeat in the Chappell-Hadlee series.

"The Gilchrist affair was damaging to the New Zealand team's culture, and was disappointing because it was a completely meaningless distraction," says Adam Parore.