Smarting under a 138-run defeat in the first one-dayer at Chittagong on Tuesday, Habibul Bashar's men returned to training yesterday, but instead of going into the nets the top-order batsmen were seen doing fielding exercises throughout the morning session and also in the

evening under lights at the BNS.

"It was a management decision to avoid any batting practice for the specialist batsmen. The decision for a change might inspire them to bat longer in a match that they have failed do so in recent times," said Bashar on Thursday.

The idea stemmed after Bang-ladesh's dismal showing in Chitta-gong where the Tigers crashed to 86, their fourth lowest score in one-day internationals.

But whether the ploy actually works or not, New Zealand stand-in captain Daniel Vettori will be aiming to wrap up the three-match series with another comprehensive victory.

"I think Bangladesh will be hungry to do well especially after the way they batted in the last match. I hope they will come out a lot harder against us tomorrow. But I think my top five batsmen who did not get runs in Chittagong will be able to put together a big score here," said Vettori before the Kiwis engaged in the afternoon training session.

"We were lucky that Cairns and Styris shared an extremely important partnership in Chittagong," said the bespectacled 25-year-old while referring to Chris Cairns' match-winning 74 after the Black Caps were reduced to 94-5.

Replying to a question, Vettori believed that lack of patience and wrong shot selection were the major faults behind Bangladesh's batting failures.

"Though I'm not a batsman I think your coach said those things about where you are going wrong," said left-arm spinner, who starred in the 2-0 Test whitewash with a haul of 20 wickets.

Bashar is also is aware that his batsmen are back against the wall.

"I know we are under the knife now with criticism flying from all directions. But it might bring the best out of us if we can overcome the pressure. Yes, we are all frustrated but one performance will change all that," Bashar said after the morning training session.

"The wicket looks good for batting and our target would be not to lose early wickets. We want to survive the new ball and we can afford losing one wicket in the first 15 overs. The players have been told to bat throughout the 50 overs," said the 32-year-old, who has returned to action in the first one-dayer after two months injured-enforced absence.

"We played a lot of bad shots in Chittagong. We have to punish the bad balls but the way we tried was not right," Bashar said while trying to explain what went wrong in Chittagong.

He defended the decision to open with Aftab Ahmed adding that the young cricketer will play the same role in the second game.

"Javed (Omar) can hold one side and we need someone to score runs at the other end. Aftab loves to play shots but he will have to be more selective," he added. a thumb injury, made 11 when he was trapped leg-before by Kumble.

Hayden smashed three sixes and a four in 35 before being snapped up at short-leg off left-arm spinner Kartik, ending a 44-run stand for the third wicket with Martyn.

Kumble removed Simon Katich and Michael Clarke to make Australia 121-5, but Gilchrist helped Martyn take the total to 157 with lusty hitting.

Gilchrist hit three fours and a six before he was caught in the leg-trap off Kartik.

Kumble accounted for Gillespie and Hauritz in quick succession to take his 27th five-wicket haul in 87 matches. He is the leading wicket-taker in the series with 26 victims.