Albion and Green Island will meet in the final round of the Dunedin senior one-day competition, with the winner to take the title.
With no final scheduled, fate has seen fit to pit the two best teams against each other in what is a virtual final.
Both teams are undefeated with five wins and a draw.
Green Island was the runner-up last season but Albion is the big improver, moving from a disappointing sixth place to being one win away from winning the trophy.
Otago and Green Island opener Craig Cumming has a minor foot injury and will not play in the match.
Albion will be without Otago all-rounder Nathan McCullum, who took a blow on the hand during the Otago trial match.
New Otago opener Hamish Rutherford will play for Green Island and Otago middle-order batsman Shaun Haig will play for Albion.
Both have been in superb form this summer.
Carisbrook-Dunedin and University-Grange meet at Tonga Park in what will be a play-off for third place.
Also at stake is a place in the southern region club knockout tournament, with just the top three Dunedin sides reserved a spot in the competition.
In other matches, Taieri will play Kaikorai and Pelichet Bay will meet winless North East Valley.
• Veteran Otago scorer Malcolm Jones has been appointed chairman of the Otago Country Cricket Association.
Jones replaces Ian Paterson, who has stepped down because of work commitments.
Jones has a long association with the cricketing body dating back to 1981.
He has been the manager of the Hawke Cup team for the past "six or seven" years and has done the scorebooks for Otago Country for nearly 20 years.
Former Otago first-class cricketer Lindsay Breen has joined the board.
