Adrian Seconi

The Otago Sparks stitched together an impressive 176 for seven from 27 overs in a rain-affected one-day match against Northern Districts at the University Oval yesterday.

Otago Sparks all-rounder Victoria Holden helped her side seal a six-wicket win against Northern Districts with an impressive performance in a twenty20 match at the University Oval yesterday.

Otago coach Rob Walter will have one eye on the future when his team completes its twenty20 campaign with a match against Wellington at the Basin Reserve today.

Katey Martin’s dogged effort with the bat has maintained Otago’s slim playoff prospects.

Auckland crushed Otago’s playoff prospects and kept its own alive with a convincing seven-wicket win in a twenty20 fixture at the University Oval yesterday.

Promising Otago age-group cricketer Hunter Kindley will be spending a bit more time on the couch this summer.

2016 will be remembered for Brendon McCullum’s remarkable curtain-call and a tumultuous off-season for the Otago Cricket Association. Cricket writer Adrian Seconi takes a look back at the year.

It might be too late to make a difference but Otago has called in leg spinner Rhys Phillips for its twenty20 match against Auckland at the University Oval tomorrow.

Remember Hamish Marshall - the curly-haired wonder kid with an identical twin who took his talents offshore after a relatively brief test career?

Otago captain Katey Martin almost provided the dream finish for her side in her 200th one-day game.

Tom Beaton deserved better from the game he loves.

Otago's prospects of making the twenty20 final vanished thanks to a stunning fourth-wicket partnership by experienced Auckland pair Katie Perkins and Victoria Lind.

The next three days could prove to be a defining period for the Otago Sparks.

There will be a new face in the Otago line-up today.

Otago has broken Auckland and Canterbury’s stranglehold on the under-19 national title with a breakthrough win in Lincoln yesterday.

Former Australian fast bowler Ben Hilfenhaus skittled Otago’s chances of recording a third consecutive win with a wonderful bowling display at Hagley Oval yesterday.

The chances of seeing Brendon McCullum in the blue and gold any time soon might seem as likely as Sam Neill performing at the Fortune Theatre.

Otago's Brad Evans was missing from the dispatches when news circulated about the quality of the field for the national men’s road race in Napier early next year.

Otago beat Northern Districts by 49 runs yesterday to clinch a spot in the final of the national under-19 tournament in Lincoln.

Injury-plagued Otago fast bowler Warren Barnes will miss the remainder of the twenty20 tournament.