Following Stephen Fleming's retirement from one-dayers after the World Cup, a decision on the ODI captaincy would have to be made before New Zealand leave for South Africa in November for a Test tour.

Vettori said that he had aspired to lead the side in all three forms of the game. John Bracewell, the New Zealand coach and member of the selection panel, had hinted earlier that Vettori would be the next in line to lead the Test side. As a one-day captain, Vettori has led his side to eight wins out of 11.

"I'm not daunted by any means," Vettori told the New Zealand Herald. "If my time comes and that's the way it falls I'd be more than happy to do it. Anybody with captaincy aspirations would love to captain in a Test match. But obviously there are a lot of things to work through before that comes, with what Stephen wants to do and with what the selectors want to do."

Vettori said that he'd been grooming himself for this role while on the field, thinking about the state of the match and coming up with ideas. "The most enjoyable thing is the control in the game, the idea that you can dictate in a lot of ways the momentum, or lack of it," he said. "I've always thought I've got a reasonable cricket brain and my mind always tends to work through ideas and permutations of what can happen. Now I can put those ideas into fruition and that's the most appealing thing."

Meanwhile, coach Bracewell has said that Fleming was still a part of New Zealand's one-day plans despite being dropped from the Twenty20 squad.

Fleming gave up the ODI captaincy after the 2007 World Cup and Bracewell said that he had been left out of the Twenty20 squad because his batting style wasn't suited to the shorter format, and to give Daniel Vettori, the new captain, space to "breathe" for himself.

"As far as I'm concerned he [Fleming] is still one of our best one-day batsmen given the way we play the game," Bracewell told stuff.co.nz. "We are keen to win, but I think it is going to be a bit of a power game in its initial crudeness and that is not Stephen's game. Also, mobility in the field is a factor. We also wanted to give the new captain a chance to breathe and have a go at leadership without having the old one standing over him."

Vettori, however, hasn't been named captain of the one-day side as yet but Bracewell said it was because New Zealand hadn't named their team. "We've been grooming him for a while and Dan (Vettori) has not done anything to dissuade us from thinking that he is a very good captain."