Australia captain Tim Paine praised the teamwork on Sunday as they won all four home Tests so far and that too inside four days. After thrashing Pakistan twice, they have now done the same to New Zealand. A century from Travis Head in the first innings, 85 from Steve Smith and 79 by Tim Paine took the game away from New Zealand. Pat Cummins, James Pattinson and Nathan Lyon then led the bowling attack to restrict New Zealand twice.

“I think it shows that we’re starting to spread the load,” he said. “When we work together as a team and build pressure — one day it’s going to be Pat (Cummins), the next day it’s going to be Nathan (Lyon), the next day it’s going to be James Pattinson, another day it’s going to be Mitchell Starc.”

“We just keep driving that home to all our team,” he added. “If we keep building pressure as a team we’ve got some absolute firepower and we know that all of them are going to have their day in the sun.”

“The same with the batting, trying to build partnerships, trying to take teams’ bowlers really deep, make them bowl lots of overs,” he said. “At some stage we’re all going to get a chance to score lots of runs as well.”

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Australia, who retained the Ashes in England this year, will play the final Test against the Black Caps in Sydney later this week. Paine said he wanted the same intensity for that game too.

“We want to win every Test match, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “We know we’ve wrapped up the series here today, which was pleasing, but with the (ICC) Test match championship every Test is really important. So winning the series is almost less important until we wrap up next week hopefully with another good win.”