Last week 18 wickets fell on day two of a Plunket Shield match between Otago and Auckland at the venue.
Auckland had to endure the humiliation of being bowled out for a paltry 46.
But yesterday it was Otago's turn to experience that sinking feeling, and its opponent, Central Districts, did not fare much better.
Otago was dismissed for a dismal 147, which was perhaps almost par for the pitch with Central reaching 134 for six when bad light stopped play.
The bowlers dominated proceedings with the help of humidity and a seaming pitch.
The ball swung and nipped off the pitch, making batting a tricky prospect.
Former Otago player Kieran Noema-Barnett starred with four for 20, and 19-year-old left-armer Ben Wheeler took three for 47.
By lunch Otago was 90 for six and the best thing it could hope for was to get out quickly and have a turn with the ball.
From that perspective things went pretty much to plan.
The best defence proved to be a weak defence.
The pitch had noticeable indentations on it from the morning's play and was still quite soft on top.
The conditions proved the undoing of some, but not all, of the batsmen.
Otago captain Craig Cumming was the first to perish.
He hoofed his front foot down the pitch and drove at a full delivery.
He was aiming through the covers but succeeded only in guiding it to Peter Ingram in the gully.
The fielder juggled the ball before securing the breakthrough.
Shaun Haig and Darren Broom also had no cause for complaint.
Haig (20) got underneath a rising delivery and holed out down at third man, and Broom (15) scooped a half volley straight to Bevan Small at mid on.
The remainder of the Otago top six all got out lbw - swing and seam undoubtedly a major factor.
Michael Bracewell got a delivery from Noema-Barnett which swung late and then nipped back off the pitch.
He did well to get his pads in the way.
Noema-Barnett bowled beautifully, beating the bat countless times, and took a career-best four for 20 from 11.2 overs.
An impressive analysis which would have been even more impressive had he not got hit for 10 runs in his 11th over.
Wheeler also bowled well.
He took one for 25 in a four-over spell and returned to take two for 22 from five, picking up the key scalp of Neil Broom.
Neil Wagner, who has scored some valuable runs for Otago this season, chipped in with 27 and combined with Ian Butler (16) in the most productive partnership of the innings, worth 43 runs.
Central's reply started poorly with Ingram (5) bowled playing an expansive drive in the first over, and his replacement, Carl Cachopa (10), was caught in the slips without advancing the score significantly.
But the big breakthrough came when Ian Butler enticed Mathew Sinclair, fresh from a big century last week, into a loose drive.
Neil Broom took a regulation catch.
Some of the Otago's fielding was quite magnificent.
Anthony Bullick set the stage with a superb catch to ruin a promising innings from George Worker.
Worker (15) mistimed a drive which eluded the outstretched hand of the bowler Warren McSkimming.
But Bullick made good ground to his right, stretched out a hopeful hand and scooped the ball inches from the surface.
Cumming raised the stakes when he turned and ran from his position in the slips three-quarters of the way to the boundary to hold a fabulous catch from the bat of Noema-Barnett.
The punishing left-hander was threatening to get away.
He punched his first four scoring shots down the ground for boundaries but came unstuck thanks to a good short delivery from Wagner.
Just when it looked like Central might struggle to overhaul Otago's first-innings total, Kruger van Wyk (40 not out) and Tarun Nethula (23 not out) combined in a damaging partnership.
At stumps the pair had added 60 for the seventh wicket.
