The two sides haven't met since the washed-out match at Birmingham during the 2013 Champions Trophy, their only ODI meeting during Hesson's tenure.
"There's no baggage," Hesson said. "Australia are a formidable outfit and there will be nothing better than those two sides going toe-to-toe in front of a full house."
The extent of New Zealand's invective appears to be icy stares from Trent Boult and Tim Southee.
Captain Brendon McCullum prefers to do the team's 'talking' through shrewd captaincy.
He backs his bowlers by stacking the field with catchers, and the fielders look like a circus act diving and rolling to reinforce the game plan. Against England, McCullum had four slips for Boult bowling to Moeen Ali, there was a long leg and deep backward square leg to Joe Root to get him thinking about the short ball and he closed off the legside to Eoin Morgan from Daniel Vettori. He made England's batsmen second-guess themselves.
Australian coach Darren Lehmann comes from the opposite side of the sledging spectrum, with no qualms about using it to toy with vulnerable opposition minds.
His view reflects a trend since Ian Chappell captained Australia in the 1970s. Successors such as Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke have encouraged a similar mindset.
The current team have had several controversial examples of what is often euphemistically termed 'banter' or 'white-line fever'. Conversely, it could be considered undisguised spite cloaked in PR-savvy phrases like 'psychological aggression' to excuse personal abuse.
There were stoushs with South Africa's Faf du Plessis in the 2013 test series; Clarke threatened to break James Anderson's arm in the 2013-14 Ashes; Mitchell Starc raged in Murali Vijay's face after dismissing him during this summer's fourth test against India; and David Warner seethed at Rohit Sharma to "speak English" during the recent ODI tri-series.
It's hard to imagine sincerity in the handshakes afterwards.
The question is whether the New Zealanders can cope if sustained vitriol becomes the norm at Eden Park.
In addition to the contrast in sledging is the divergence in their celebrations. When Australians score centuries, the response tends to be euphoric. The New Zealand norm leans towards more circumspect - the removal of helmets and raising of bats before resuming.
Neither response is necessarily right but the difference between these teams is marked.
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