During the early stages of Sri Lanka's innings with the bat, I probably like you were a wee bit worried. However I wasn't really worried about the fact that Sri Lanka were heading north of 300 as that would have offered our lads a great chance to really test themselves, that would have been pretty good actually.

Instead I was worried with the ease that Tilerkaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara dispatched our bowlers. Why was this my main concern? Well each major team at the World Cup will have one or a few batsmen of the highest quality and our bowlers better be able to handle them or else they won't really have much of a chance in the World Cup.

Decent deliveries can be smoked to the boundary by the very best and the most encouraging aspect of our bowlers performance was that they reigned it in. Adam Milne showed that he's not just the wicket taking weapon we've all come to think he is, well he's that and he can keep it tight while building some pressure. Some would say that that's the perfect combination, but I'll stop dreaming as Milne is once again injured. 

That heaped some pressure on Tim Southee and Mitch McClenaghan, who responded. Tick. Perhaps the biggest weakness was the first 20-30 overs, but we saw that Southee and Big Mitch can execute at the death which can mask a few problems. That death bowling probably won the game for the Black Caps.

A minor issue is the ease at which the Sri Lankans handled Daniel Vettori, which is common place as they are more cautious against him, accepting that he'll bowl 10 overs for 40 runs. I'm ok with this as it allows Brendon McCullum to rotate bowlers from one end as Vettori does his thing, but it would be nice to see Vettori ask a few more questions.

Ross Taylor? It case you haven't watched much cricket, players go in and out of form. Relax.

Relax because we have the talent across the board that it's all good. Not everyone is going to get runs every game but in the past, this has taken place with no one able to right the ship. This time around it was the Prince who you could label as the anchor, but his century was highlighted by the ease at which he scored rather swiftly much like Jayawardene and Sangakkara. That gives someone like Grant Elliot plenty of time to get in, to not have to score from ball one - remember, this is ODI cricket, not whack whack cricket.

Sidenote - The Black Caps will be one of the best fielding teams at the Cup, but the other side of that is that guys like Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill can impact a game in the field, not just with the bat.

To simplify the Black Caps batting mission objective, the top order must set a platform for the middle order to attack from. Once again, both Corey Anderson and Luke Ronchi may not get runs every game, but at least we have two lads capable to giving it a go. Yesterday they executed their roles which was nice.

The Black Caps won, they won a game that with both bat and ball was probably drifting away from them a various stages. All we need or want this team to do is win, and they are showing that they can at the very least keep themselves in the contest which gives them a sniff when the game is on the line.

Besides the mental aptitude to continue to fight and the ability to execute when push comes to shove, we're seeing different guys stand up each game. Yes, it would be nice if Taylor scored some runs, but it's all good as we've got a team of lads who can chip in when called on.

The World Cup is a tournament which has sudden death cricket games, something we see far too little of. All I want to see is the ability to win and win games that maybe the lads shouldn't win. I don't care how, oh wait maybe if Luke Ronchi hit the winning runs against Australia, then I care how we won.