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New Zealand's prospective players for next summer's World Cup have been put on notice by selection convener Sir Richard Hadlee.

With the National Bank Series tied up at 2-2 going into Tuesday's series decider at Carisbrook in Dunedin, Hadlee told CricInfo today that the side's performances had been disappointing.

"If we had made the progress we thought we had then we would have nailed England at Napier and made it 3-0," he said.

"But at least we are finding out some things about players," he said.

The selectors had not made any changes to the team as they felt with another round of domestic games starting tomorrow there was little point in taking a player from those games to effectively be 12th man in Dunedin.

New Zealand's failure to develop some consistency had been of concern to the selectors, especially after winning four out of five games in Australia, then losing five in a row, winning two against England, and then losing two.

"Realistically, we've won two out of our last nine games," he said.

Hadlee was not concerned that New Zealand was running short of time before the World Cup to sort out the final side.

"We've got plenty of time," he said.

There was the Sharjah tournament, the Pakistan series, the West Indies series, the ICC Knockout tournament and New Zealand's home series against India next summer.

"There are lots of competitions available to us.

"But some players are not helping themselves," he said.

England had improved during the one-day series but Hadlee backed England captain Nasser Hussain's comment that two bad matches don't mean you are a bad team.

"New Zealand are still good enough to turn it around," he said.

Hadlee also said that he expected all members of the one-day side to play the next round of State Championship matches, "unless they have a very good reason not to."

Some of the players needed to take part in those games to work on their form to be ready for what was shaping as a pretty tough series, he said.

He said the first Test team to play England would be named four or five days before the Test which starts in Christchurch on Wednesday, March 13.

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