Adrian Seconi

Otago can laugh again.

Who else? Casey Kopua, of course.

A fine century from Hamish Rutherford and a five-wicket bag from Sam Wells have helped keep Otago's playoff prospects alive.

The Otago Nuggets will renew their battle with the Canterbury Rams this weekend with pre-season games in Timaru and Dunedin.

It is guys like Luke Pickering who help remind you what sport is actually all about.

When you are busy mapping out a future for yourself in basketball, the last thing you expect is a call from an Australian rules football club.

Track cyclist Katie Schofield picked up three medals - one of each colour - at the national track championships in Cambridge last week.

Otago is not out of the one-day competition, with a place in the top four potentially just one win away.

Former Otago coach Vaughn Johnson has not borrowed or taken any money from the Otago Cricket Association, chief executive Ross Dykes says.

What has made Otago so formidable at limited-overs cricket in the past couple of seasons has been its ability to perform under pressure.

Brad Thorn is one tough campaigner.

Stand-in Otago coach Nathan King has asked his senior players to shoulder more load as the camp adjusts to the absence of coach Vaughn Johnson.

If you cannot break through the wall, you can either go around it or over the top.

Otago seamer Ian Butler is poised to make his return to domestic cricket.

It is not often you post a record score and get beaten.

The Otago Nuggets' latest recruit was discovered in the most unlikely location: at a camp with the Canterbury Rams.

Can the Black Caps round out a golden summer with victory at the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh? Cricket writer Adrian Seconi outlines four reasons why we can dare to dream and perhaps even win cricket's version of the lottery.

Leana De Bruin is contemplating popping something in her shoes for a bit of extra lift.