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Rain may have threatened to limit the Otago-Northern Districts to a first innings contest but that didn't prevent an exciting end to the third day's play today at Carisbrook

Only 20 minutes were possible in today's scheduled second day of the Otago-Northern Districts Shell Trophy match at Carisbrook in Dunedin today

Central Districts' English import Ben Smith taught Canterbury a thing or two about professional batting on the second day of their Shell Trophy match in Christchurch today

In a nutshell, the difference between the centuries of Roger Twose and Matthew Bell which helped Wellington to a 46-run first innings lead over Auckland on the second day of their Shell Trophy match at the Basin Reserve today, was that one aims to

A phenomenal collapse woke up the sleepy spectators in this early New Year Shell Trophy match between Canterbury and Central Districts

The existence of luck as a force in sport, as a measurable quantity and a determinant of success and failure, is a concept which can often provoke warm debate

When Matthew Horne won the toss for Otago this morning, and put Northern Districts in to bat in their Shell Trophy match on a beautiful warm summer's day at Carisbrook, many present looked at each other and wondered

The glory was all Zimbabwe's at Eden Park today as it celebrated its first One-Day International series victory by claiming the National Bank Trophy from New Zealand with a thrilling one wicket victory

Auckland gathered in several Shell Trophy records as they annihilated Northern Districts by an innings and 275 runs before lunch on the fourth day of the Trophy match on the Auckland Outer Oval today

The fourth day of the Otago verus Canterbury Shell Trophy Game at Molyneux Park was never going to last too long whichever way it went

Craig Spearman played an innings of unmistakeable quality as Central Districts drew their Shell Trophy match with Wellington at McLean Park today and, in doing so, added another conundrum to one of New Zealand cricket's most enigmatic careers

When play commenced on day three of the Shell Trophy match at Molyneux Park, it was quite uncertain who held the advantage

The swarthy man in the white dress at McLean Park today and the inflatable woman who accompanied him, posing for pictures with the umpires at drinks in the final session, were among the least striking features of the third day of the Shell Trophy

Auckland were on the verge of one of their biggest and most spectacular Shell Trophy wins when they had Northern Districts reeling on the ropes after the third day of their match on the Eden Park Outer Oval today

It's a long way from Nairobi to Wellington, and it has been just as long between One-Day International victories for New Zealand, but their eight-wicket win at WestpacTrust Stadium tonight was more like the form expected from the side by a discerning

When Otago began this the second day's play in the Shell Trophy match against Canterbury at Molyneux Park, they were chasing a Canterbury score of 201 to gain first innings points

Auckland, the humble, pointless cellar-dwellers of the Shell Trophy competition, might have been permitted to walk tall and proudly after completely dominating the second day of their four-day match against Northern Districts at the Eden Park Outer

If anthropologists in future generations study cricket for a clue to man's lifestyle as revealed by his pleasures, they might reconstruct the record of the Shell Trophy match between Wellington and Central Districts at McLean Park and find it a

When Matthew Horne won the toss and put Canterbury into bat at Molyneux Park, Alexandra, the immediate thought by those present was that he would be expecting a great deal of help from bowlers to dismiss this his province's most ancient of enemies

The 15-Test international career of Blair Pocock, the Auckland opening batsman, was not notable for his supply of good luck with form, selectors and injuries, so he was entitled to a critical piece of good fortune at the start of the Shell Trophy