Vettori slams 'poor' batting effort

New Zealand will consider playing an extra batsman in the first Test and dropping one of their four fast bowlers after the side's disappointing effort in the tour match loss to New South Wales. Jamie How's first-innings 170 was the only real batting bright spot in the six-wicket defeat, which the captain Daniel Vettori said was unacceptable.
"Absolutely not," Vettori said after the match. "We came here with a desire to win the game and the performance for the majority of it, particularly with the bat, was pretty poor."