The New Zealand coach blamed his side's naivety for allowing England to rewrite the record books at Old Trafford.

The New Zealanders failed to press home their advantage in the second npower Test after opening up a 179-run first-innings lead, and subsequently trail 1-0 in the series when they should be in front.

"They taught us a really good batting lesson on how to bat in difficult conditions under pressure," said Bracewell. "And to win. They're better players than we are now in terms of the batting line-up. We've got to take every opportunity and if we get half a sniff we've got to make it count. Young teams make those mistakes, poor teams keep repeating them."

One of England's great comebacks saw the tourists dismissed for only 114 second time around and a Manchester Test record 294-run chase was completed with four sessions to spare.

Two of the young collective, Daniel Flynn and Jamie How, came out of the match with damage to their bodies, while New Zealand were today given news of a further blow from back home with Jesse Ryder not fit for the forthcoming NatWest Series.

The pain would have been greater Tuesday morning as the team reflected on the self-inflicted blows to their chances of snatching victory.

Jacob Oram and captain Daniel Vettori were both needlessly run out in the same over during the first innings and, forced to reshuffle the batting order due to the absence of Flynn and neck injury to Oram on Sunday, they went down in a blaze of shots against left-arm spinner Monty Panesar.

"We lost a half-session and lost the match," bemoaned Bracewell. "Probably 290 could have been enough but we should have got 400, we should have buried them.

"We look back and say we should have got 400 in the first innings as well when the pitch was at its best.

"We made two really bad mistakes with run-outs, they were poor mistakes when we were on top of them."