22 Mar 2011

Black Caps will feel at home in Dhaka

6:58 am on 22 March 2011

The New Zealand wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum believes the Black Caps will feel at home in Dhaka for their Cricket World Cup final despite an embarrassing series of losses in the city recently.

New Zealand take on formidable South Africa on Friday night in the Bangladesh capital where they crashed to a 4-0 series defeat in October last year.

But McCullum believes their experience of the conditions there will be to their advantage, and the Proteas pace bowlers will have to work harder on a pitch that won't give them pace and bounce.

McCullum says Daniel Vettori's likely return from injury for the quarter-finals will be a great fillip for the team.