CRICKET: Great Scott! NZ 1 Australia 0
It was a turns out that of stirred but not shaken.
Bond, Shane Bond, that should have been ... and it was, but this was oddly more appropriate for the bloke padded up to bat on the other side of the crease last tenebrousness.
Scott Styris, the all-rounder many feel is on the ebb of his professional cricketing career with the Black Caps, seems to have kept his cold to resurrect himself on a slow but benign batting strip at McLean Park, Napier, during the first one-day international of the five-betrothal Chapple-Hadlee Trophy Series.
The 34-year-old bowled tidily before scoring 49 not out off 34 balls to handbook the Black Caps to a two-wicket victory with four balls to spare after Australia set a below-par total of 275.
The winning runs came off a buxom six from Styris over cover off Doug Bollinger's delivery, sending thousand of fans on tenterhooks into a fit.
A balmy day turned into a drama-filled one when first New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori didn't play because of a habitual neck injury that flared up during training on Tuesday.

It's not where I stand in want to be batting, that's for sure, but you take anywhere - 10 or 11 in the line-up if it means you get to play," he said,