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50 Years Since The First ODI Was Played - Quite by Accident DOWN MEMORY LANE Fifty years ago on January 5 1971 a cricket match was played at Melbourne. It was staged quite by accident but unexpectedly created the finances, shape and tone of the modern game. It will not be an exaggeration to say that the limited overs game has altered the face of an art form known as cricket. One must not forget that one-day cricket made its appearance when the game was sorely in need of something faster and more entertaining. Since then it has stayed the course, spread its wings much wider, made changes to i...

A Shirley Boys High School alumni, Grigg came to teach at Nelson College in 1996. Taking over as coach of the 1st XV in 2000, the team achieved a Quadrangular Tournament win the following year under captain and future Mako centurion Robbie Malneek. In the 20 years Grigg has been involved as coach or manager of the 1st XV, Nelson College has enjoyed a number of successes on the field – winning the Moascar Cup, Crusader secondary schools titles and making the Top 4 national 1st XV finals – to go with six Quad wins and four in the last six years. He has also been instrumental in the scho...

Dean Kozanic/Stuff The premier one-day final will be held at Pukekura Park next Saturday, with New Plymouth Old Boys and New Plymouth Marist United competing for the title. (file photo) New Plymouth Old Boys (NPOB) will take on arch rivals New Plymouth Marist United (NPMU) in the Taranaki Cricket Premier grade final after each won their respective semifinals last weekend. Top qualifiers NPOB had a comfortable win against New Plymouth Boys’ High School (NPBHS). The school side was severely depleted with their usual First XI away playing in the Gillette Cup national finals, which meant they...

It meant Southland held a small but handy 37 run lead after the first innings. Mockford again led the way with the ball for Southland in South Canterbury’s second turn at bat when he took three for 85 from 22 overs. South Canterbury posted 205 to set up an intriguing finish on Sunday as Southland went about chasing down 169 to claim victory with 55 overs remaining in the game. Teenage opening batsman Brayden Thomas led the way early in the chase with his knock of 43 and when he was at the crease with Domigan (20) there was hope. However, Southland struggled to assert any dominance in t...