The national selectors must have been burying their heads in their hands when news filtered through that four of New Zealand's top six were skittled for a grand total of seven runs among them.
The Sri Lankans were painfully polite, the Bangladeshis sweet, but the English, well, who knows.
Financial nous again beat grassroots experience as Wanaka businessman and former lawyer Ross Laidlaw was elected to the board of the Otago Rugby Football Union last night.
The writing appears to be on the wall for incumbent test opener Craig Cumming with his position in the national squad coming under pressure from the in-form Jamie How.
University-Grange bowler Will Somerville has something to tell the grandchildren after taking three wickets against the touring English side during a two-day warm-up match at the University Oval yesterday.
Black Cap Jesse Ryder's future in international cricket is over unless the batsman can change his behaviour, New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan says.
The Tall Blacks are looking for a new cleaner. Well at least that is how retiring forward Dillon Boucher describes himself.
Otago should not have too much trouble muscling up this season, with former Nugget Markham Brown called in to whip the side into shape.
The faces will be the same but who knows which Otago team will show up at the Basin Reserve today - the group capable of winning the one-day competition or the other lot, a side destined for a middle-of the-table finish.
Adorning the flat of Dunedin's new sporting couple are two giant wall planners.
You might think Debbie White would be a little sad about the Otago Rebels folding after 10 years in the National Bank Cup.
Otago rewrote the record books with a magnificent batting display to dispatch Central Districts by 56 runs at the University Oval yesterday.
Dunedin skeleton racer Tionette Stoddard recorded a career-best result when she finished seventh at a World Cup Skeleton meet in St Moritz Switzerland, last week.
Dunedin skeleton racer Tionette Stoddard recorded a career-best result when she finished seventh at a World Cup Skeleton meet in St Moritz Switzerland, last week.
Dunedin cyclist Alison Shanks is off to Copenhagen next month in a bid to help secure an Olympic berth in Beijing later this year.
