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Auckland: New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming on Tuesday admitted that after the success in the Test series the pressure was on his team to do well in the One-dayers and said his bowlers would find it more difficult to contain Indian batsmen in the shorter version of the game. "We have to perform. We are not the most in-form batting unit there has been but we have some good One-day players. The pressure is on us to perform," Fleming said ahead of the first of the seven One-day Internationals on Thursday. The Kiwi skipper was obviously very happy with his bowlers and said his pacemen had given tremendous confidence to the team. "I think the bowlers feel pretty good about themselves against these batsmen and because of it the team too feels confident. "Our bowlers have a good enough chance to keep (themselves) on top of them (Indians)... But keeping an edge on these players is going to be very difficult," he said. But Fleming felt a lot of improvement was required in the batting department. "Our working singles off spinners is pretty poor. We need to have general efficiency in every department," he said. In the past one year, only Chris Cairns, Stephen Fleming and Craig McMillan have averaged better than 30 in One-day Internationals. Even New Zealand's most successful One-day batsman Nathan Astle could average just 27.15. Extras:
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PTI 
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