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Shah and Co face the Kiwis again tomorrow in Hamilton anxious to make amends for Saturday's horror show performance in Wellington where they totalled just 130 to lose by six wickets with 20 overs to spare.

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Confident: Owais Shah still believes England can adapt

England's feeble effort was in stark contrast to last week's vibrant Twenty20 displays which brought them two victories.

"We all know it was a poor performance by our team," said Shah, who was second top scorer with 20 in Wellington.

"But after the way we played in those Twenty20s there is still a lot of confidence in the side and we believe we've still got the momentum.

"We just had one bad day at the office and hopefully we can put that right, starting here tomorrow."

England never came to terms with the two-paced pitch and proved incapable of chiselling out a competitive total.

But, as Shah recalled today, they had similar problems at the start of the one-day series in Sri Lanka four months ago yet came back to win 3-2.

"We adapted there after getting a hammering in the first game," added Shah. "It's still early days in this series and we all believe we can win games here."