Well it's pretty much as I expected so far. The inexperienced Kiwi batsmen are struggling against the movement being generated in these conditions by our seamers. In fairness to them, they had the worst possible conditions to bat in, but tough luck.

McCullum has been the only Kiwi batsman to patiently grind out some runs and it's no coincidence that he's the most experienced batsman in the top 6.

This Kiwi top 5 are in for a gruelling and testing time this series.