Adrian Seconi

It was mostly the usual suspects who scored the runs during an Otago twenty20 trial match at Brooklands Park yesterday evening.

The Otago Rugby Supporters Club will celebrate turning 40 tonight but it might be its last birthday.

Last year Australian Mitchell Lovelock-Fay wrote his name into history.

Basketball Otago will make another step towards recovery when it advertises for a general manager this weekend.

The good news is Taieri first five-eighth Josh Casey ought to return a much better player following his Spanish sojourn.

And one more makes four. Kaikorai cemented its position at the top of the standings with a fourth consecutive win.

Two wickets late in the day have all but consigned Otago to a loss in its Plunket Shield match against Canterbury at Hagley Oval.

Unless the person doing the scoring at Hagley Oval is the same person responsible for counting visitors to the Otago Museum, then the Volts are in a terrible spot.

By the time us media types are halfway through a third coffee, Wanaka triathlete Nicky Samuels has run eight to 12km, swum for up to two hours and perhaps even popped in for a quick gym session.

Eventually you get to that point in your career when you look around the changing room and realise you have been in the team longer than just about everyone else.

Veteran Dunedin cyclist Joe Chapman will tick over his ''12 or 13th'' and possibly last Tour of Southland next month.

Maybe it is the summer for surprise comebacks.

Otago will name its team for its Plunket Shield encounter against Canterbury today but the wounded list reads like War and Peace.

Otago escaped Napier with a draw but Volts coach Nathan King was critical of the pitch, which he felt was lifeless.