History records a one-day cricket match between New Zealand and Australia was controversially abandoned without a ball being bowled in Napier 12 months ago.
But it was still a needle match for Christine McClusky who, despite being a cricket watcher rather than an absolute fanatic, outlasted most of those at McLean Park. She stayed around until the game-less end was announced after 7pm on February 2 last year.
Mrs McClusky spent the day with a friend on the embankment knitting, and says: "We were probably the only people who were happy. I think I was knitting a shawl. I got heaps done. It was great."
Knitting is something she does often, for Wool 'n' Things, the Onekawa shop she took over about 18 months ago from her mother, who had been in the business about 23 years.
Maintaining a loyalty to wool in the face of the synthetic fibre takeover, Mrs McClusky says, with the shelves crammed with skeins of colourful wool: ''People like to know what it feels like when it's knitted.''