With Otago backing up against Central Districts today and Auckland taking on Canterbury tomorrow, this will be a hard and fast domestic daily where I scamper around the last three games. While many of the big guns continued their dominant form, we also had the return of Canterbury's lethal young seamers and a few unsung heroes chipping in as they have all season.

The return of Kyle Jamieson for Canterbury saw him link up with Ed Nuttall, who made his return a few weeks ago. Jamieson's battled a fair amount of injuries in his short career and last outing for Canterbury was a Ford Trophy game back in February last year. Despite not playing in the second stanza of Plunket Shield, Jamieson ended up as one of the top wicket-takers in the entire PS season and with Nuttall steadily developing as an intriguing leftie prospect, Canterbury unleashed this duo against Wellington.

Wellington were skittled for 88 in pursuit of 151 as Nuttall and Jamieson took 3 wickets each. Nuttall sent Luke Ronchi, Tom Blundell and Luke Woodcock back to the sheds while Jamieson took the big wicket of Samit Patel as well as Devon Conway. Nuttall was especially funky, nipping the ball back between Blundell's bat and pad as he went for a hoick and then angling it in to Woodcock's leg-stump, thus showing some stuff in moving the ball ever so slightly in different ways;

Nuttall has 6w in 5inns @ 21.16avg/7.05rpo which isn't amazing, but with Jamieson by his side we could see Nuttall finish off the Super Smash by sliding up those bowler rankings. There's no reason to think that Jamieson won't chip in with a few wickets every game as his height offers some weird angles for batsmen to smack. Canterbury already have Andrew Ellis leading all bowlers (12w @ 11.83avg/7.67rpo), they also have offies Cole McConchie (8w @ 14.62avg/7.31rpo) and Tim Johnston (7w @ 23.71avg/6.91rpo) doing a fine job and I wouldn't be surprised if Cantebury end up with five bowlers in the top-20.

Unsung Hero #1 - Rob Nicol

The Otago skipper hit 43 off 41 to help steer the Volts to victory in chasing CD's target of 148 to win and while other batsmen have demanded the spotlight with big knocks, Nicol's consistently chipped away with handy scores to now sit 4th in Super Smash runs (36.83avg/121.42sr).

In 7inns, Nicol has scored less than 20 twice and one of those was a 19 so you can pretty much bank on Nicol to hit 20+ runs as an opener and that's bloody handy when you consider that Shawn Hicks is the only other Otago batsman in the top-20 runs. They are also the only Otago batsmen who have scored over 100 runs.

Unsung Hero #2 - Daryl Mitchell

ND on the other hand have three batsmen in the top-5 and one of them is Mitchell - who smoked 50* off 22 balls against Auckland. ND were chasing a big ol' 203 to win and thanks to Mitchell's knock and 58 off 30 from Daniel Flynn and another trip to boom-Town for Anton Devcich, ND won in the 17th over.

Mitchell is 5th in runs (73avg/147.97sr) and along with Cameron Fletcher and Rob O'Donnell, they may have snatched the 'best finisher' title away from Josh Clarkson ... for now. In 7inns, Mitchell has scored less than 30 just twice and he's also taken 8w @ 26.12avg/9.08rpo with his medium-seamers. So ND basically have the two best all-rounders in the competition.

Big Dawg #1 - Anton Devcich

76 off 37 balls and 1w in 3ov @ 7.67rpo vs Auckland. Devcich is 2nd in runs and 4th in bowling, still with the lowest rpo of notable bowlers.

Big Dawg #2 - Mark Chapman

57 off 30 to push Auckland up over 200 vs ND. Chapman is 3rd in runs and has a trio of 50+ scores in his 6inns, plus his strike-rate of 174.35 is only bettered by Luke Ronchi's 183.33.

Big Dawg #3 - Ish Sodhi

Mandatory 2w for Sodhi vs Auckland and he's slotted back into Super Smash cricket as per expected. Sodhi is the only bowler to take 8w+ in just 5inns and he has taken a wicket in all of his past 7 T20 innings, including two T20 internations.

Peace and love 27.