There are eight pitches in various states of preparation in the middle of the oval, where New Zealand plays Sri Lanka in one-day games today and Sunday, and the Otago Sparks women's team plays its twenty20 home final tomorrow.
Sky Television has agreed to broadcast the Sparks' game live, because its cameras will be set up at the oval.
About 700 grandstand tickets were left yesterday for each Sri Lanka game, after other areas sold out.
Ground staff are preparing for all that with one eye on the Cricket World Cup, beginning next month.
Delta turf manager Tom Tamati was at the ground this week with a team of four.
He was coy about how the pitches might play over the weekend, how many runs he expected to be scored and who would win.
''No comment, no comment and New Zealand,'' he said.
However, he was ''pretty happy, mate, pretty happy'' with the ground.
The busy schedule made his job ''a little bit different than preparing for a normal one-dayer''.
One pitch would be used for both one-dayers, and another for the final between the Sparks and the Wellington Blaze.
A good pitch came from managing aspects including grass cover and moisture levels, density and rolling technique.
For one-day games, a wicket had to be ''pretty true'', with consistent pace and bounce, so batsmen could feel confident enough to score plenty of runs, something people came to see in the one-day format.
