It was 31 years ago yesterday, on February 20, 1982, while working in Wellington that I was sent down to the Basin Reserve to do the colour story on what was the capital city's first big one-day international cricket match.
It was 1-1 in a three-match series, the first between the two countries since the six-match series and the underarm affair in Australia 12 months earlier.
The Basin was chokker with about 18,000 people as Kiwi openers John Wright and Bruce Edgar strode to the crease just before 11am, and with Martin Crowe, Geoff Howarth, Jeremy Coney, Lance Cairns, Ian Smith and Richard Hadlee among those to follow it was about as fine a one-day team as New Zealand would ever put onto the park.
There was a mild chill in the breeze, but otherwise it was sunny and fine.
Fine, at least until Wright was caught off the first ball.