Adrian Seconi

Otago has had its share of success in limited-overs cricket during the past decade but it has been 28 years since the province won the first-class title. Cricket writer Adrian Seconi looks at what the Volts need to do to bring the long drought to an end.

Just once, former Dunedin rider Greg Henderson would like to know what it is like to cross the finish line on a stage of the Tour de France with his head down.

Terrific one day. Terrible the next.

Brad Rodden's days of banging in goals for Dunedin Technical are numbered but his cricket career is just taking off.

Otago opener Neil Broom was just starting to find his feet at the top of the innings and now he is back scoring runs in the middle order.

Scotland is bound to feel right at home for its opening game of the 2015 World Cup.

Newly retired double world champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Alison Shanks was perhaps defined as much by her failures and disappointments as she was by her incredible success on the cycling track. Adrian Seconi reports.

New Zealand test opener Hamish Rutherford made up for getting out in the 90s last week with a hard-hit hundred against Auckland at Eden Park Outer Oval yesterday.

Double world champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Alison Shanks would not have got to the top had she eased off for a single second.

Otago all-rounder Sam Wells joined an elite club when he took five wickets and scored a century in the same innings to help the Volts post a seven-wicket win against Canterbury in a Plunket Shield fixture at the University Oval yesterday.

Otago offspinner Mark Craig snaffled his second first-class five-wicket bag but the game is evenly poised, as Canterbury posted a fighting 280 at the University Oval yesterday.

If experience counts for anything, then Otago will start as favourite in tonight's twenty20 final in Hamilton against the dangerous Northern Districts unit.

Otago overseas professional Ryan ten Doeschate has played in almost 200 twenty20 fixtures in leagues all around the world. He knows a thing or two about the shortened format and shares four secrets of Otago's success as the Volts prepare for the final of HRV Cup in Hamilton tomorrow night. Cricket writer Adrian Seconi reports.

There is no room for sentiment at the business end of the HRV Cup.

Who knows what to expect from the Highlanders in 2014?

Otago has made one change from the side which beat Canterbury by seven-wickets on Sunday.

New Dunedin Netball general manager Lee-Anne Anderson was still not sure where the coffee and tea were kept when the Otago Daily Times arrived for a chat.