Despite dominating on home soil, where the Southern Stars retained the Rose Bowl trophy on the back of five straight one-day international wins, the Australian's suffered a complete reversal of form against the resurgent White Ferns.

Blackwell said the squad knew they would face a different test in the New Zealanders' backyard, but added the side might need to look at its batting approach ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies later this year.

Speaking to The Area News after training yesterday, Blackwell said the side gained plenty of confidence from its two-wicket last-ball win on Wednesday saying they'll look to carry that form into the last two games of the tour to ensure the Rose Bowl stays in their possession.

"We lost all five Twenty20 games, it's more that we didn't adjust to that format very well, but we've been playing the one-day games very well with five wins in Australia and just scraping through on Wednesday," Blackwell said.

"The fact it's been a mixture of one-dayers and twenty20 has played into the hands of the Kiwis for this second leg because they had the two twenty20 games first up and won both of them.

"But I'm really happy with the gutsy effort the girls put in yesterday (Wednesday) to get across the line and Jess Cameron did a great job in getting her first 50 for Australia."

Australia will face New Zealand in their final two one-day internationals this weekend in Invercargill, after which Blackwell hinted the Aussies might look to reinvent their batting in time for World Cup.

"In terms of the Twenty20 approach we probably didn't get it together with our batting, chasing low totals really should be easy pickings for a team of our skill level," she said.

"It's all Twenty20 after this series is over and we've got six weeks to really hone some skills and we'll actually look at some shots we might need to develop in that short period of time."