The Australian said after the third day's play that he had thought that some of the local boys would be comfortable with the bat.

"But it was different. We got a dusty wicket that favoured spin. Their quality spinners got good support from the fielders who took some good catches," Whatmore said.

"They batted under pressure, feeling not comfortable with the fielders' eyes so close to the bat," explained the 50-year-old.

"There were a lot of cases of not being able to face fast balls and giving wickets to spins. If we could've put on 400/500 runs, then with the spinners likely to take more wickets, things would have been different.

"There was good batting conditions on Day One and till the second half of the day to help the tourists put on 545 runs, which was a very big total," he added.

Whatmore, however, was a bit pleased with lower-order batsmen.

"Rafique did well with both the ball and bat taking nine wickets in two matches and getting some runs as well.

"Javed Omar scored a fifty in the first innings but failed in the second. His consistency could have made the second innings a bit different," he observed.

New Zealand off-spinner Paul Wiseman said that 'impatience and wrong selection of shots by the home side' helped him in get wickets.