The premier club T20 tournament shapes as a race between three sides, although Taieri will still have ambitions of making tomorrow’s final at Logan Park.
The Black Caps have found a role for the ICC’s emerging player of the year Rachin Ravindra, while Otago's Glenn Phillips gets the call-up to face South Africa.
New Zealand survived a late sneak attack and an early collapse to edge Afghanistan by one wicket in a low scoring under-19 world cup match in East London yesterday.