Who wants to take the new ball on Wednesday afternoon?
Anyone fancy a bowl at the death, at 300-3?
Rival skippers Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli won't quite be calling for volunteers but some World Cup aspirants might need some cajoling as they look to push their cases in Napier in the first one-day cricket international.
Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson demands improvements from his side against India, particularly in the field.
It's all set up for a cracking occasion in 30degC temperatures, the high point and big ticket item of a largely uninspiring home summer when the world's No 2 side face the third-ranked Black Caps.
It's just that the men gripping the white Kookaburra will do some with some trepidation, given the re-turfed McLean Park retains its reputation as a batsman's paradise with short side boundaries to punish anything too short or straight.
New Zealand and India captains, Kane Williamson, Amy Satterthwaite, Mithali Raj and Virat Kohli ahead of their respective one-day series openers in Napier.
Central Stags plundered 225-3 on the nearby strip in a Twenty20 against Canterbury Kings, including Black Caps seamer Matt Henry last Friday, and a blistering 110 off 60 balls from team-mate Tom Latham wasn't enough.
Add to that the two highest averaging ODI batsmen of the last 13 months: India's Kohli a mind-boggling 113 from 17 innings and New Zealand's Ross Taylor 92 from 13 knocks. Then India's openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan ranked second and ninth respectively in ODI cricket and the veteran MS Dhoni, whose two superbly paced unbeaten knocks sealed a 2-1 series win over Australia.
Taylor, Williamson, Martin Guptill and Latham match up pretty well against a weakened Indian attack without the rested Jasprit Bumrah and suspended allrounder Hardik Pandya.
And as Kohli said so informatively at his pre-series briefing, he and Williamson will be using all their own knowledge to get inside the heads of their opposites.
"You put yourself in that situation and thinking 'what is the shot that I would want to play to get myself out of trouble, or how so I see this game going forward, am I in the mindset of just knocking singles around.' And you place the field accordingly. If I'm wanting to go after the bowlers you change the field before the batsman does it," Kohli said.
"Being a batsman and captaining the side helps in that regard because you can premeditate at times what the batsman might want to do. That's a massive factor."
Both skippers were non-committal about how much a series victory would mean, given the big prize looms in the UK starting in just over four months.
Both are in the final stages of fine tuning their 15-man squads and in that regard it's a big series for Colin de Grandhomme, Matt Henry and Doug Bracewell, with the likes of Jimmy Neesham and Todd Astle also set for chances in games four and five.
De Grandhomme and Neesham look the two favoured pace bowling allrounders at this stage, with Corey Anderson leaving his run late and Bracewell only a slim cup chance.
Still de Grandhomme after a freshen-up needs to show his matchwinning qualities after a lean few months with bat and ball.
Henry, too, looks a likely World Cup inclusion but needs more bowling after some unwelcome idle months in late 2018. Wickets up front from him, and in the middle stages will prove his worth to this side with form in England to help his cause.
Said Williamson, coming off a 3-0 win over Sri Lanka: "We saw in the last series we want to execute a few things better, certainly in the field we want to step up and get back to our old ways which is that real attitude in the park."
Kohli played in the last ODI series in New Zealand in 2014 when the hosts won 4-0 with a tie in Auckland. He said the Black Caps were one of the hardest to beat at home.
"The fact they are No 3 in the world speaks about their consistency over the last couple of years. We played them in India and got beaten in Mumbai, and all the games were competitive and we felt they had a really good balance. They have that energy and that buzz about them and they play their cricket in the right way which is something we always appreciate."
AT A GLANCE
New Zealand v India, first ODI at McLean Park, Napier, 3pm Wednesday:
New Zealand (likely): Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson (captain), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Doug Bracewell, Tim Southee/Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult.
India (likely): Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (captain), Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal.