The last time New Zealand toured Australia was 2004. The build-up to the tour was a two-Test jaunt to Bangladesh where they whipped the home side in two horribly lop-sided tests. New Zealand were then thrashed in Australia," writes in the Herald on Sunday.
Fast forward four years and New Zealand are again preparing to play Tests at the Gabba - the toughest venue in Australia since the WACA lost its sting - and the Adelaide Oval on the back of a two-test series in Bangladesh. Not just any old series but, as a bonus, a watered-down one featuring a Bangladesh team decimated by the recent ICL raid. There's a term for this and it reads something like "being set up for a fall".
