There exists in radio archives a sublime piece of Test match commentary in which John Parker recalls, with lascivious delight, the manner in which he achieved his only wicket in Test cricket - the bastard product of a non-bowler and wayward fieldsman

Kyle Mills was his usual 6ft 3in tall when he got up this morning

Wellington's latest bowling discovery, the stripling medium pacer Iain O'Brien, will travel to England in the New Zealand off-season to harden the skills which have brought him 41 wickets in this season's Shell Trophy

The run fest at Alexandra reached its finale just after the start of the final session today when the skippers of Otago and Central Districts decided enough was enough and their game ended in a draw

Wellington opener Matthew Bell, who was recalled to the New Zealand Test side today after a season's absence, believes he is much better equipped mentally to cope with the demands of international cricket than he was when he was first selected at 21,

Auckland may not have won the Shell Trophy but there were many times as they defeated Canterbury by 112 runs today when they looked certain to take a gold medal if there was ever a contest for appealing

After yet another puzzling display of their Jekyll and Hyde character, the Auckland cricket team face the giddy prospect of a big win over their old enemy Canterbury when their Shell Trophy match ends at the Eden Park Outer Oval tomorrow

In one of those odd conjunctions of circumstance which give sport poignancy, even a certain nobility, Wellington achieved its first win in 11 years in the Shell Trophy at the Basin Reserve today on the 24th birthday of its first-season captain

To his team-mates and casual acquaintances Tim McIntosh sometimes appears a "cool dude," relaxed about his batsmanship, one of the Mark Waugh half-down school of reflex slip fieldsmen