Going into stoppage time, this hilarious -if not baffling -routine had spectators in stitches.

Like past Te Matatini festivals, many teams had spectators ears' recognise those familiar tunes with a knowing smile.

It was the sort of performance that had spectators thinking of King Georges to come over this course and distance.

Mr. Gryce noted the gesture; it was the same which Bartow had made when he first realized that he had spectators.

Fordham acknowledges that an early trial of floodlit championship cricket in Canterbury six Septembers ago had spectators literally in sleeping bags.