Bowlers wanting to bowl into the teeth of Wellington's wind?

Now that's a new one. As observers caught watching firstly England, then New Zealand, practise on the wind swept Basin Reserve today, two days out from the second National Bank Series match, will tell you, there are winds, and there are Wellington winds.

But England captain Nasser Hussain believes there may be no shortage of volunteers for the into-the-wind duties.

"We will need an into-the-wind bowler possibly, although that might be the end to bowl with the prevailing wind. If it comes from there it might swing away.

"It's funny with the wind, at the beginning of the last Test match everyone wanted to bowl at one particular end and then people swing it into the wind a little bit more and everyone wants to bowl at that end," he said.

"A Test match varies, from day to day and which end people want to bowl."

Just what the make-up of England's side would be on this occasion would depend on how the wicket looked closer to the match start time.

"The wicket has got a lot of time before it will be ready.

"It looks a bit more traditional soil where it might do a little bit to start with and it might turn a little bit at the end, that's normal cricket," he said.

England would be looking to lift its game from its success in the first Test.

They now had to do what they did in Christchurch, which was getting the greater amount of runs on the board in the first innings, pitching the ball up and swinging it, and then, when it gets a little flatter hitting the deck in the manner of Andy Caddick while also having the middle-order score more runs later on.

"They're the same basics from every Test match really.

"It's just a case now of adapting to conditions and that is what my team talk will be based around, and never taking the game for granted.

"It looks like a typical New Zealand wicket. There will be times when it is flat and there will be times when it is doing a bit and you have to adapt your game accordingly.

I think that was the same in the last Test and will be the same in the next Test," he said.

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