Fast bowler Brett Lee says does not expect Australia will simply walk away with a victory from the first match of the one-day series with New Zealand in Wellington today.
Lee said he is wary of the Black Caps following their performance in the inaugural Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series in December and expects a tight contest.
In that series, New Zealand won the first match by four wickets and Australia took the second by 17 runs. The deciding match in Brisbane was washed out.
"There's been a few people saying that it's not going to be a two-sided game," Lee told ABC Sport.
"I think there's definitely going to be a lot of decent cricket played, so I'm actually looking very much forward to it."
The match will be Lee's 100th one-day international and he said it was an important milestone in his career.
"When I was about 10 or 12, you always want to play one game for Australia then you play one and you get a bit greedy and you want to play two or three," he said.
"But the chance to play a hundred games for your country in the green and gold colours, it's the most amazing thing."
Australia had a good warm-up for the match, winning the first Twenty20 match between the two nations in Auckland on Thursday night, but a squad for the longer one-day match is yet to be named.
Selectors will wait until just before the game starts to name the final eleven with opener Matthew Hayden still providing a tough decision for captain Ricky Ponting and on tour selector David Boon.
Hayden has been laid low with pleurisy in recent weeks and missed the Twenty20 match on Thursday.