As far as captain Tom Latham is concerned, it's a case of onwards and upwards for the Blackcaps, after their capitulation in the first Twenty20 international against Bangladesh.
The second-string side were braced for the same challenging tracks that had conspired against Australia last month, but quickly discovered conditions were even less forgiving than they expected, crashing to an NZ record-equalling 60 runs and a crushing seven-wicket defeat.
"We knew it was going to be tough and unfortunately we kept losing wickets at crucial times really," Latham says.
"As soon as the guys came in, it was certainly hard to start. We knew it was always going to be a challenge.
"We were prepared for this, but unfortunately, we couldn't quite put it together today.
"Hopefully, we will take plenty of learnings from what happened today and for us, it's about trying to find a way in these conditions and obviously it's completely different to what we have back home."
The Dhaka pitches have produced consistently low-scoring affairs, and Latham says the team were aware they'd need to dig in and set their foundation early.
But a nightmare opening few overs put paid to any such hope, as New Zealand played and missed, and the Bangladesh spinners hit, reducing them to 9/4 inside the powerplay and leaving a steep mountain for the visitors to get back into the contest.
Latham and Henry Nicholls provided some resistance with a partnership of 34 off 41 balls, but once they departed, the Blackcaps toppled like dominoes.
"We probably didn't quite assess the conditions as well as we thought we did," says Blackcaps coach Glenn Pocknall. "Losing four wickets for not many runs was always going to be a challenge in any form of cricket, especially this.
"We came back really well from that [collapse], with a good little partnership between Tom Latham and Henry Nicholls. I think we will take a lot from that performance in the way that they batted in the middle for our game in a couple of days' time."
The Blackcaps bowlers can certainly be heartened by their efforts, asking plenty of questions of the Bangladesh batsmen, who needed 15 overs to grind out the NZ total.
Ajaz Patel had the ball searing off the pitch, finishing with 1/7 through his spell, while debutant Cole McConchie also impressed, claiming a wicket off his first ball in international cricket.
"Both teams performed exceedingly well with the ball, and two quality outfits in terms of spin bowlers and the fast bowlers were able to execute their slower balls," Pocknall says.
"I think the bowling attacks really even themselves out, so the challenge in two days' time is to [find out] how we can get to a 100 and then… defend that. I think we can defend that with an extra few runs."
Latham echoes his coach's sentiments, confident the team has learned valuable lessons to take into Friday's second match of the series.
"It's about trying to assess what a good score is on this sort of surface and as we showed with the ball tonight, certainly it isn't easy with runs on the board," he says.
"If we can put a competitive total and put pressure on if we do bat first, you never know what might happen."
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