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Middle order jitters send Canterbury close to defeat at hands of Otago

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

04-Jan-2001•Warwick Larkins

Wellington extend healthy advantage over Central on absorbing day

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

04-Jan-2001•Steve McMorran

Auckland heading for emphatic first Trophy victory of season

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

04-Jan-2001•Don Cameron

Road to victory after Nairobi has been a long one for Kiwis

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

04-Jan-2001•Lynn McConnell

Horne century takes Otago to first innings points

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

03-Jan-2001•Warwick Larkins

Dominant Auckland closer to first Trophy 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

03-Jan-2001•Don Cameron

Tough Wellington-Central contest represents more than just cricket

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

03-Jan-2001•Steve McMorran

Canterbury crumble to Otago seamers after solid start

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

02-Jan-2001•Warwick Larkins

Pocock makes Northern pay dearly for early mistake

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

02-Jan-2001•Don Cameron

Bell pushes further with Trophy ton against Central

Matthew Bell might do well over the next few days to stay within earshot of a telephone

02-Jan-2001•Steve McMorran

Oram leads from the front in remarkable win over Wellington

Jacob Oram has established as his largest wish of many this season that of becoming more accepted by his Central Districts teammates as their leader - for all his youth and the frailty of his experience, as their captain

31-Dec-2000•Steve McMorran

Abandoned match means no practice for ODI five

Auckland and Canterbury between them prepared to send five members of the New Zealand one-day squad out on to Eden Park in a sixth round Shell Cup match today to give them the opportunity to make the transition from test mode

31-Dec-2000•Chris Rosie

Northern top the table with four wicket win over Otago

After the drama and pantomime of the Northern Districts v Wellington game on Friday, Blake Park in Mount Maunganui witnessed an altogether more sedate affair today

31-Dec-2000•Peter Hoare

Rain continues to hound Central's Cup campaign

The sound of falling rain has become an unmusical and unsolicited accompaniment to Central Districts' progress through the Shell Cup this season

29-Dec-2000•Steve McMorran

Northern win in the dark and confusion

Northern Districts won an extraordinary and sometimes bizarre match by three Duckworth/Lewis runs at Blake Park, Mount Maunganui, leaving Wellington angry and disappointed at the end

29-Dec-2000•Peter Hoare

Canning magic steers Auckland to victory from hopeless situation

Coming on the back of two consecutive wins in the Shell Cup for the 2000/2001 season including a previous win over Auckland at Eden Park, the Otago Volts hopes were riding high when their fifth round match in the series against Auckland started at

29-Dec-2000•Warwick Larkins

New Plymouth washout for Districts' Cup match

Rain forced the abandonment of the fourth round Shell Cup match between Central Districts and Northern Districts at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth today before a ball had been bowled

27-Dec-2000•Steve McMorran

Wellington win a slow affair

Wellington and Auckland put in a performance for most of this fourth-round Shell Cup match that can give one-day cricket a bad name - and then found something in the last 10 overs to return some semblance of respectability to the match

27-Dec-2000•Chris Rosie

Otago break horror historical run with powerful win at Alexandra

With rain sweeping the ground at Molyneux Park, Alexandra early this morning a huge doubt existed as to whether the Shell Cup game between State Otago Volts and Canterbury would see a completion

27-Dec-2000•Warwick Larkins

Public and players deserve much better from pitches

The players turned up, the crowd turned up, more than 7000 of them, but someone forgot to order a pitch for the New Zealand-Zimbabwe Boxing Day Test at Wellington's Basin Reserve

26-Dec-2000•Lynn McConnell

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