Adrian Seconi

You spend hours scouting and coming up with a bowling plan and then Martin Guptill hits you out of the venue, across the road into a car park.

No changes but definitely a surprise or two.

You might say it was a financial term of two halves for Pirates Rugby Football Club.

Paris is awfully nice.

Jeet Raval’s spot at the top of the New Zealand order has come under pressure following a poor run of form. Maybe it is time to try someone else. Cricket writer Adrian Seconi examines the options

Otago all-rounder Nathan Smith took a career-best five for 14 to help his side beat Northern Districts last night.

Green Island 164 lost to Taieri 156 for four

Suzie Bates delivered a win for the Otago Sparks with a sparkling century against Northern Districts in Lincoln on Saturday.

Max Chu is probably the only player in the Otago team who can explain the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.

Otago wilted. Wellington prospered.

There was a time when Suzie Bates would put her phone number on her bat. That way if it got lost, someone could call to arrange to return it.

Otago wicketkeeper Max Chu will make his twenty20 debut tomorrow.

Otago and Dunedin cricket will introduce another format of the game in February — Social Sixes.

Promising junior athlete Matheson Colquhoun leads the bunch during a triathlon held at the Otago Harbour Basin on Tuesday night.

Anti-Nuclear New Zealand blew up its alliance with the United States.

Winning the Super Club tournament would have been nice.

A few runs would be great.

The Steel slipped out of contention at the Super Club tournament in Nelson last night.

The Otago Sparks will bring a little more thunder this season — two of them, to be precise.