Most cricket fans understand the Duckworth-Lewis method about as well they understand quantum physics or baseball's infield fly rule. Otago Daily Times cricket writer Adrian Seconi attempts to shed some light on the formula used when limited-overs matches are affected by weather delays.
Otago all-rounder Nathan McCullum has had a foot in two camps this season.
The Otago under-18 side was knocked off the top of the competition table after a seven-wicket loss to Auckland in a one-day game at Lincoln yesterday.
Otago has made one change to its one-day side with Darren Broom replacing Sam Wells in the 12.
Otago and Black Caps all-rounder Nathan McCullum has helped the Sydney Sixers reach the final of the Australian domestic twenty/20 competition.
Who would let a little thing like nearly bleeding to death slip by without a laugh? Not Demelza McCloud. The towering Steel goal keep has always had a devilish sense of humour.
Otago Nuggets coach Alf Arlidge is reasonably satisfied with his side's draw.
There are still 12 points on offer for Otago in the HRV Cup and it will probably need all of them to make the final.
Otago fast bowler James McMillan will be absent during a crucial period of the Volts' twenty/20 campaign.
A dead rubber at the end of a disappointing campaign is the game no-one wants to play.
You wouldn't ask a nurse to perform surgery. So why roll the dice with part-time keeper BJ Watling, who, it seems, is poised to take the gloves for New Zealand in the one-off test against Zimbabwe next week? Cricket writer Adrian Seconi reports.
What do Jeff Wilson, Chris Cairns, Craig McMillan and Craig Cumming have in common?
You have to start somewhere, and for 17-year-old Southland Boys High School pupil Jacob Duffy it could be against Northern Districts in Hamilton tomorrow.
Otago coach Vaughn Johnson was three parts happy and one part confused.
Anything can happen in age-group sport.
Auckland will host the twenty/20 final while Otago will have to be content to watch it on television after it was humbled by eight wickets at the University Oval yesterday.
New Steel chief executive David Bannister might have some making-up to do with the folk in Invercargill, after suggesting the franchise might be better served by relocating to Dunedin.
Otago's prospects of reaching the twenty/20 final are held in place by a single thread.
Otago coach Vaughn Johnson has defended his side's batting order after the Volts slumped to an eight-wicket loss to Auckland at the University Oval yesterday.
Far from being the death of fast bowling, twenty/20 cricket has only made his kind stronger, Otago fast bowler James McMillan believes. Why, then, are teams increasingly turning to slow bowlers to restrict the scoring? Cricket writer Adrian Seconi reports.
