Kevin Pietersen needs "significant rest" after sustaining a knee injury during England's tour of New Zealand
Alastair Cook's team had to fight to the very last ball, with nine wickets down, to secure even the solace of a 0-0 stalemate at Eden Park yesterday.
It was an uplifting finale for England, and deflation for their hosts, but will not erase memories of a largely off-colour performance from the tourists over three Tests.
Faulty first-innings batting, in Dunedin and then Auckland, cost England in the first and final match.
Rain intervened to prevent a result in the first two Tests, but only England's redoubtable determination - Matt Prior in particular with an unbeaten second-innings 110, 183 runs in the match altogether and five catches behind the wicket - kept the series level yesterday.
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Flower, however, is a renowned hard task-master - and is having none of that theory.
"There was no complacency in our camp at all ... none whatsoever," he said.
"Your reference to the media talking about the fact we should win easily, or comfortably, is probably where you draw that information from.
"It's certainly not within our dressing room. We knew when we came here we had a real fight on our hands, and we prepared for that.
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