Black Caps batsman Ross Taylor rates the University Oval pitch as the best wicket he has played on at the venue.
Taylor scored 96 in the Black Caps' comfortable 120-run win against Sri Lanka at the venue yesterday.
He was not the only batsman to flourish. Team-mate Luke Ronchi scored an unbeaten 170 on Friday and was part of a world record sixth-wicket stand of 267 with Grant Elliott (104 not out).
Kane Williamson was on track to post a century before he was run out on 97 yesterday, and Sri Lankans Tillakaratne Dilshan (116) and Kumar Sangakkara (81) also enjoyed the batting conditions.
If you ignore the three run outs, the Black Caps scored 675 runs for 10 wickets across the two games. That is a good advertisement for the venue and Taylor was full of praise.
''It was definitely the best wicket I've played on down here,'' he said.
''There was a lot more grass left on it and it was a lot bouncier. The test matches that we have played down here it has been probably a bit lower and slower but that had some good carry and it is probably the furthest I've been back from a slips point of view.
''I think that bodes well and with the new rules, and two new balls, it is always nice to have a little bit in it for the bowlers.
''With the short boundaries here, if you can keep wickets in hand, which I think we did pretty well most times, you can set a platform and we did that.''
The Black Caps play a World Cup game at the venue against Scotland on February 17.
There are two other World Cup fixtures in the city. Sri Lanka plays Afghanistan on February 22, and Scotland and Afghanistan meet on February 26.
