Marc Ellis and Mathew Sinclair at Art Deco Legends of Cricket match at the Clifton County cricket club.
Hawke's Bay folk shouldn't be too fazed that the Mission Concert took an early leap year.
While this time of year typically marks a seasonal wind-down, the Cricket World Cup has put paid to any suggestion the summer party's over.
This writer was lucky enough to get to Saturday's stunning
match at Eden Park; suffice to say the three games in Napier, starting today, have much to live up to.
It's an unfair comparison of course, given last Saturday's anticipated fixture, but there's no reason McLean Park, as a microcosm of its metro cousin in the City of Sails, can't engender the same unrestrained merrymaking.
To this day, the loudest roar I've heard at a live sporting match was the clamour at McLean Park during the Magpies' triumph over the British and Irish Lions in 1993.
