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"Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid and the likes have been in pretty much every situation that you can be as a batsman so for them it's just a matter of replicating that each time they go out.

"We're having to go out there and learn situations as they unfold. It can be tough but we've also got the blueprint to follow when we're out there playing. It's staring us in the face every time they bat."

McCullum has also called for greater application and determination from his team-mates after the selectors opted not to make wholesale changes despite plenty of below-par performances in Hamilton.

"Making no changes gives us opportunities to try and rectify what we didn't do quite so well in the last game.