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'Way behind Australia'

REUTERS/AFP, London
Victorious New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming was thrilled with their triangular NatWest Series win on Saturday but said his side were still a long way behind world champions Australia.
Five wickets from Daniel Vettori, a 200th one-day wicket for Chris Harris and an aggressive 67 from Fleming gave New Zealand a 107-run win over West Indies in the final at Lord's, their ninth one-day victory in a row. Despite their progress, Fleming still believes Australia are the team to beat.
"We are not that close (to Australia). There are huge areas for us to improve," he said. "But we are gaining on them."
New Zealand lost the Test series 3-0 to England but Fleming was not unduly concerned by the disparity in their performances in the two versions of the game.
"We are intelligent on and off the ball," he told a news conference. "People say why don't we transfer this to Test cricket. We are nearly there."
The next chance to test themselves against Australia will be in the ICC Champions' Trophy in England in September.
"We are looking forward to the next challenge in the ICC Champions' Trophy," Fleming said. "We need to continue our form after a break and get back into the rhythm."
He reserved special praise for Harris, who became the second player, after Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya, to take 200 one-day international wickets and score 4,000 runs.
"I can not stress how popular he
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is in New Zealand. He is an original," Fleming said. "He is already talking about his next hundred (wickets)."
West Indies captain Brian Lara on the other hand admitted "the better team won the tournament".
"They were unbeaten in the preliminary round, they came into the final very confident and they deserved to win," said Lara after the rain-hit match.
"We told the guys it was really important to lay the foundation and try to accumulate runs in the middle.
"But wickets went periodically and that put us on the back foot."
Lara however said he did not think the defeat would interfere with West Indies' preparation for the forthcoming Tests with England.
Lara believes there are plus points for his young team ahead of the four-match Test series, where the tourists seek to avenge a 3-0 Caribbean drubbing by Michael Vaughan's side earlier this year.
Upon arrival here a month ago, Lara declared the best chance of success would be in the triangular tournament and Champions' Trophy, where individual errors are not magnified as they are in the longer form of the game.