Signs renaming Logan Park Dr, leading to the University Oval in Dunedin, Brendon McCullum Dr for the duration of the Cricket World Cup were completed yesterday and are set to be installed at either side of the road this week.
This comes after the council last month voted in favour of a suggestion by Cr Hilary Calvert for the temporary renaming.
Cr Calvert yesterday said it was ''absolutely fabulous'' seeing her idea come to fruition.
Speaking before the Halberg awards were announced last night, she said McCullum being successful at the awards would be ''icing on the cake''. ''If he doesn't win, he's still our Brendon and he is equally fabulous.''
McCullum was named sportsman of the year, while rowers Hamish Bond and Eric Murray took out the supreme Halberg Award.
Cr Calvert still had hopes the name change would be made permanent.
The name fulfilled most of the council's naming criteria, except that most roads were named after people who had died.
''In this case, it is very important that we do it sooner rather than later, because young men need more role models,'' she said.
''Brendon is a particularly good example, because to achieve what he has in cricket you have just got to keep on keeping on.''
Cr Calvert's initial move for the road to be renamed came after McCullum last February scored 302 in the second innings of the second test against India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
The New Zealand Cricket Museum in Wellington has requested one of the signs after the Cricket World Cup and the council is considering printing extra signs for Dunedin cricket fans to buy.
