You really felt like telling the Volts to play nice.
They flayed Central Districts by eight wickets in a top-of-the-table match at Fitzherbert Park today.
It was quite a statement by the southerners.
They restricted the Stags to a woefully under par 133 for six with some tightly executed bowling plans.
Then Dale Phillips swaggered out to the middle and blasted 35 off 11 balls
His brief knock featured four fours and three sixes. One of those sixes sailed over the point boundary despite the batter falling over to reach the delivery.
The contest was more or less over two overs into the Volts' chase.
Jamal Todd banged an undefeated 51 from 28 balls – his maiden half century in the format – and Dean Foxcroft clobbered 23 not out from 11 balls.
Extras chipped in with 13, which summed up Central Districts' day.
They were as poor as the Volts were excellent.
Otago still had more than 10 overs up their sleeve when Jayden Lennox bowled a wide to clinch his side's defeat.
Todd had scored just 12 runs in the first four games of the campaign but showed what he was capable of with a quality knock.
''I have not started as well as I would have liked to,'' Todd told the commentary team.
''But to get a score like that definitely feels good.
''For me personally, I just try to watch the ball and I hadn't really been doing that,'' he responded when asked about his approach to chasing what was a small target.
''And as a team, it was just about batting. See ball, hit ball. If that ball is there just hit it.''
They certainly did that.
Otago keeper Max Chu was ruled out because of illness which meant Ruben Clinton came into the XI and Phillips took the gloves.
Otago teenager Mason Clarke struck in the opening over. The right-armer was getting some generous movement and found the edge of Curtis Heaphy's bat.
The 17-year-old went on to register a rare maiden-wicket over.
Andrew Hazeldine removed the dangerous Dane Cleaver next over. He tried to ramp a short ball and Clarke took a simple catch at short fine leg.
The Volts nearly got the captain Tom Bruce early as well.
He edged Clarke wide of first slip and whacked a drive to the left of mid-on
.Both shots went for four. On another day they might have gone to hand.
He rattled on 20 runs in no time and put some pressure back on the fielding side.
The Stags threatened to get away on the Volts until Bruce, who scored 44 from 28 balls, mistimed a shot down the ground to Luke Georgeson.
Matt Bacon got the breakthrough and returned the favour for Georgeson, holding on to a catch to dismiss Jack Boyle for 22.
Minutes earlier Boyle had cracked a shot straight back into the forehead of Georgeson, who remarkably was able to shake off the blow and continue bowling.
Central had a solid base, though, and a heavy-hitter at the crease in Josh Clarkson.
But the Volts executed their bowling plans brilliantly. The boundaries dried up and they picked up another wicket to leave the Stags 103 for five.
Clarkson had an almighty heave and was bowled by Georgeson for 22.
That took the sting out of what was left of the home team's batting line-up.
Swing. Miss. Swing. Miss. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
The Stags went 50 deliveries without scoring a boundary.
That is not a successful recipe in T20.
But then the Volts hit a lot of yorkers. And to restrict a power-pack batting line-up like the Stags boast to under 140 was just brilliant.
