Vettori looking for improvement

Bowlers need to tighten up ahead of Australia test

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Vettori looking for improvement

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Daniel Vettori admits New Zealand need to improve in the bowling department despite securing a series victory over Bangladesh.

The Black Caps won the second one-dayer in Dunedin by five wickets after restricting the tourists to 183 for eight, although they had been reduced to 25 for five at one stage.

And with the Chappell-Hadlee one-day series against Australia coming up next month, captain Vettori knows his bowlers need to retain their composure better at the death if they are to compete with the Aussies.

"It's about execution. Obviously the size of the boundaries made it a little bit more difficult," he said. "But I think we missed a little bit too much.

"If we want to compete against Australia it's an area of our game we've got to make sure is almost perfect otherwise it's difficult to stop very good teams."

However, Vettori refused to be too hard on his players.

"I don't think you can describe bowling a team out for 180 as letting them off the hook," he added. "I'm pretty happy with that performance.

"People are allowed to play and there's a couple of decent batters there. They played very slowly and they didn't take any risks and on a flat wicket."

Ross Taylor impressed with the bat once more with a 52-ball 78 but fell just six short of the victory target.

"I would have liked to have finished it off at the end but I'm happy with the way it's been going and hopefully I can continue with it," the big-hitting right-hander said.

"I've been working on using my feet a little bit more to the spinners. I'm still a while away yet but with the short straight boundaries it was good to utilise that."

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