Former Test opener Michael Slater has fallen for a duck as New Zealand beat New South Wales by 30 runs today to complete an unbeaten four-match tour of Australia.

After New Zealand was bowled out in the 45th over for 199, last year's ING Cup one day champions got off to a bad start with opener Brad Haddin out for two.

First drop Slater then flurried at a wide shot in his typical aggressive fashion, nicking Shane Bond into the safe hands of Chris Harris.

Fast bowler Bond led the way for the Kiwis capturing 5-32 as NSW was bowled out for 169 with four overs left.

After spending time in the off-season commentating in England, Slater was looking forward to the season ahead today despite the bad start.

"The focus will be a lot easier given the Australian side is well out of the picture," he told Channel 10.

"My number one focus is firstly scoring runs for the Uni of NSW and carrying that over to state cricket.

"When I was at my worst I felt `Is this what I want to be doing now', but then having a little bit of time away from the game in England there is no doubt I knew within a few weeks of being over there commentating that I still wanted to out there playing and I didn't want to be talking about it."

Captain Stephen Fleming top scored with 59 for the Kiwis while Mathew Sinclair made 43, with NSW's top scorer Dominic Thornely making 48 while Philip Jaques got 43.

"It was a good week to get back into the swing of things and we've learnt about combinations we want to use," Fleming told New Zealand Press Association.

"Rightly or wrongly we put ourselves in positions where we had to fight out of it and we achieved that."

The match was the Kiwis' final build-up match to next week's ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka.

The New Zealanders are scheduled to fly out of Sydney to Sri Lanka tomorrow to defend their Champions Trophy title.

They will play another two practice matches in Colombo before taking on Australia in their opening match of the tournament.

© 2002 AAP

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