Dunedin club cricket changed to the franchise system over the weekend but the low scoring continued, with teams batting first failing to make a significant total.
The domination of ball over bat continued on Saturday.
With franchise cricket, the eight club sides have merged into four teams.
The sides got their first taste of play on Friday night with games of twenty/20 cricket, then reverted to one-day games on Saturday which both ended early.
The Central Knights won in the 30th over, passing a low total from the North West Bears.
In the other match, a sound 75 from Hamish Rutherford gave the Saddle Hill Steamers a comfortable win over the Eastern Beaches, reaching the modest target in just the 20th over.
Central Knights 118-5 beat North West Bears 117 by five wkts.
The North West Bears, made up of Kaikorai and North East Valley players, failed to recover from the loss of three early wickets against the Central Knights, a team made up of players from University-Grange and Pelichet Bay, at Logan Park.
Otago paceman James McMillan knocked off the top of the Bears innings, with two wickets, and the Bears then lost wickets at regular intervals, eventually being dismissed for 117.
Gary Paine top-scored for the Bears with 36, but he was wastefully run out.
The wickets were shared around.
The Knights made a poor start, and lost their fourth wicket at 28.
But Craig Smith and James Fuller came together to safely see the side home.
Smith finished with an unbeaten 37 and Fuller compiled an undefeated 31.
Craig Sneddon was lively and picked up three wickets for the Bears.
Saddle Hill Steamers 157-3 beat Eastern Beaches 153 by seven wkts.
The Eastern Beaches, consisting of players from Albion and Carisbrook-Dunedin, found its bowling attack had no answer to the bats of the Saddle Hill Steamers, made up of Green Island and Taieri players.
The Beaches batted first and struggled through to 153.
No-one made 30, and the lack of a decent partnership really harmed the Beaches' chances.
Reuben Simpson picked up three wickets in the middle order for the Steamers and Mark Joyce cleaned up the tail.
When the Steamers batted, Anthony Harris and Rutherford got the side off to flying start and had 73 on the board before they were separated.
The onslaught continued as the ball was dispatched to all parts of the Brooklands ground as the Steamers won easily.
