The plan was pretty straightforward but in sport no matter how well you plot success anything can and does always happen.
Having secured the Murray Kearney Memorial Twenty20 crown on Friday night, Big Barrel Napier Technical Old Boys simply had to beat You Travel Taradale CC on Saturday in the MJF Shrimpton Memorial Cup 50-over competition to break a record established more than a century ago.
"If Tech win against Taradale tomorrow they will also win the overall championship for the fifth year in a row," said NTOB stalwart and HB Cricket chief executive Craig Findlay on Friday, suspecting it has only been only been done once before in the early 1900s.
Someone forgot to tell hosts Taradale who beat NTOB by four wickets on Saturday to keep the excitement alive with two rounds to play.
Heretaunga Building Society Cornwall, who went down by 60 runs after an imposing 203/6 from the Texans at Nelson Park, Napier, also have a chance of claiming overall bragging rights provided they win their two matches in the 50-over format to spoil Tech's party.