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We supposed to be weak against seamers. However, openers plyed the seamers well today. Nevertheless, we can also make an argument that we do not have enough quality seamers and bouncy pitches to practice on. But what is confusing is that we regularly fail against good spinners. Is it just that Vittori has figured out our batsmen as well as our bowlers? It seems that he owns us in both departments. Without his performances we could have been respectable in the first ODI. CI smade and interesting observation today. "Guptill came into the attack to clean up the tail, but the hosts are likely to be fairly content with their bowling effort which was led yet again by Vettori, who was typically influential in the middle overs. Worryingly for the Bangladesh batsmen, their inability to handle Vettori effectively was reiterated, and it is something they will look to work on ahead of the second ODI in Dunedin on Monday. " I think this will be difficult. We not only lack in speedstars, we are also owefully one-dimensional in our spin bowling department. Our batsmen are easliy fooled by doosra's/ googlies and variations in flight. If our spinners do not master these tricks themselves, our batsmen will reamin clueless agains the like Murali and Vittori due lack of practice.