Otago can finish their own season with pride, and dash another team’s title hopes, when they end the summer with one last Plunket Shield game over the next four days.
Otago Girls’ High School are through to the national secondary school finals thanks to a comfortable 50-run win against St Hilda’s Collegiate in the Bates Cup final.
Appleby are the Southland 50-over Club Cricket champions for the third consecutive year after beating Waikoikoi by one run in the grand final yesterday.
Otago have made a couple of tweaks to their squad as they seek to produce something a little unusual in the Plunket Shield game against Auckland starting at the University Oval today.