Captain Shakib al Hasan is hopeful Bangladesh can find the drastic change in form needed if they are to test Kiwis in the ODIs.

A humiliating 10-wicket loss in Wednesday's one-off Twenty20 in Hamilton was not the ideal start to the visitors' short tour of New Zealand.

They batted poorly - playing too many rash shots - and their fielding was well below par with two dropped catches and four overthrows in a New Zealand batting innings that lasted just 8.2 overs.

Black Caps thrash Bangladesh

They now have three one-day matches to salvage some pride before the sole Test begins in Hamilton on February 15.

Bangladesh do come into the one-dayers with some form behind them, though, after a solid showing in the tri-series against Sri Lanka and India.

While they did not win any of their matches, they did bat out the 50 overs in making totals of 260, 296, 249 and 247.

"I feel that we have a very good bowling attack as far as the ODIs are concerned and our batting is getting better day by day," said all-rounder Shakib, who will need to be on top of his game if Bangladesh are to succeed.

"The last series against India and Sri Lanka we consistently made around 250 a game so this is a very good sign for us," he told blackcaps.co.nz.

New Zealand will be certain to maintain their aggressive start to the series and international newcomer Peter Ingram will have only benefited from his time in the middle on Wednesday night, when he made an unbeaten 20 off 23 balls.

Fast bowler Andy McKay is the other one-day debutant in a side missing bowlers Shane Bond (abdominal) and Kyle Mills (shoulder and knee) and explosive batsman Jesse Ryder (groin).

Brendon McCullum, who smashed 56 off 27 balls in the Twenty20, and Ross Taylor loom as the biggest threats with the bat, while New Zealand's leading bowler - captain Daniel Vettori - and fellow spinner Nathan McCullum bamboozled the Bangladeshis at Seddon Park and seamer Daryl Tuffey was miserly, conceding just 16 runs and taking two wickets in his four overs.

New Zealand, though, expect to see an improvement from the visitors at McLean Park in Napier on Friday.

"These guys are a good team and they will be disappointed with the way they played (on Wednesday)," Brendon McCullum said.

"We're under no illusions that these guys are capable of knocking us over at any given time so we have to play as well as we have done (in the Twenty20) and that's going to be the challenge over the next couple of weeks."