Australia's turbo-charged Eden Park meltdown has brutally highlighted the difficulties Steve Smith's men will face in New Zealand this month as they aim to regain the No.1 Test ranking.
In a further blow, James Faulkner will fly back to Australia on Thursday after suffering a hamstring injury during the match.
Shaun Marsh is again in the firing line, in danger of losing his place to Usman Khawaja, after again nicking off cheaply with Smith forecasting changes for the must-win second game in Wellington. 
The 159-run capitulation to a rampant Black Caps outfit on Wednesday may have come in the 50-over arena but it inspired little confidence for success in the upcoming Test series.
The heavy loss has put the one-day world champion's run of seven consecutive series victories in grave danger and again shone the spotlight on Australia's weakness against the swinging ball.
Smith disputed claims the ball was swinging, which means he is either in denial about Australia's problems or casts the collapse in an even darker light.
The Australians, who crumbled inside 25 overs before the lights had taken full effect, have a little over a week until the first Test.
"I'd like to forget tonight's game to be perfect honest with you, it hasn't been a great start to the series for us," Smith said.
The flat tracks of home must now seem a world away for Australia's batsmen, whose torrent of runs slowed to a trickle against a red-hot Kiwi pace attack. Australia folded with the bat, dismissed for a paltry 148 after collapsing to 6-41 in nine dramatic overs.
"Today the way we batted it looked like we were in a bit of a hurry, almost in T20 mode if you will," Smith said.
It would have been far worse if not for the 79-run stand between Matthew Wade and James Faulkner. The alarming speed at which the visitors' batsmen unravelled must have brought an uneasy sense of deja vu to any Australian fan with the debacle at Trent Bridge still at the forefront of their mind.
Whereas that disintegration occurred on a treacherous deck, the wicket at Eden Park was hardly a graveyard. It had earlier played true enough for the Kiwis to amass 307.
There had been a suspicion all summer that Australia's new-look batting line-up had been shielded by a combination of benign tracks and poor opposition. This performance will do little to dispel those doubts.
Worryingly for Australia, the XI in Auckland contained three of the likely top six for the first Test. Joe Burns and Adam Voges would have been well served had they avoided their TV sets, while Khawaja can consider this a bullet dodged.
Worse still, the Black Caps were without gun paceman Tim Southee, who is on track to return for the Trans Tasman series.
Smith has stressed to his players the need to respect the new ball in New Zealand conditions but it appears his words fell on deaf ears. "I guess that's the most disappointing part of it," Smith said.


SCOREBOARD ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL
NEW ZEALAND v AUSTRALIA
At Eden Park
New Zealand
Batsman     Runs  Balls
M GUPTILL run out    90  (76)
B McCULLUM b Faulkner   44  (29)
K WILLIAMSON c S Marsh b Hazlewood  0  (8)
H NICHOLLS c Wade b M Marsh  61  (67)
G ELLIOTT c Hastings b M Marsh  21  (18)
C ANDERSON c Rich'son b Hastings  10  (20)
L RONCHI b Hazlewood   16  (26)
M SANTNER not out    35  (39)
A MILNE c&b Faulkner   14  (10)
M HENRY not out    5  (7)
Sundries (1b, 3lb, 7w)   11
Total 8 wickets for    307
Fall: 79, 81, 181, 205, 231, 234, 263, 290
Bowling: J Hazlewood 10-1-68-2 (1w), K Richardson
10-1-64-0, J Hastings 10-0-39-1, J Faulkner 10-0-67-2, G
Maxwell 3-0-30-0 (2w), M Marsh 7-0-35-2
Batting time: 216 mins Overs: 50
AUSTRALIA
Batsman     Runs  Balls
S MARSH c Guptill b Henry   5  (8)
D WARNER lbw Boult   12  (11)
S SMITH b Henry    18  (17)
G BAILEY c Anderson b Henry   2  (10)
G MAXWELL c Williamson b Boult  0  (3)
M MARSH c McCullum b Boult   0  (4)
M WADE c Nicholls b Anderson  37  (38)
J FAULKNER b Milne    36  (33)
J HASTINGS c Guptill b Santner  8  (9)
K RICHARDSON c Williamson b Santner  19  (13)
J HAZLWEOOD not out   0  (0)
Sundries (2lb, 9w)    11
Total     148
Fall: 10, 33, 39, 40, 40, 41, 120, 121, 148, 148
Bowling: T Boult 7-0-38-3, M Henry 6-0-41-3 (3w), A Milne
6-0-46-1 (3w), C Anderson 4-1-14-1 (3w), G Elliott 1-0-7-0, M
Santner 0.2-0-0-2
Batting time: 115 mins Overs: 24.2
Umpires: Ian Gould, Derek Walker
New Zealand won by 159 runs