Hard on the well-heeled Paul Holmes nuptials last weekend, former Silver Fern Bernice Mene and Black Cap Dion Nash are tying the knot today at an exclusive Waiheke Island estate. Several of Mene's netball team-mates will be there, including a number making the trek from Invercargill, where Mene is an
adopted daughter for her Southern Sting successes. Nash will have fewer cricketing mates because many are in South Africa or involved in today's Auckland-Northern Districts one-day final.
Fly Guys When Stephen Fleming and the Black Caps touched down in Johannesburg this week they kept up their champion run as the world's most travelled cricketers. The Wisden cricket website calculated that Fleming, with his extra captaincy duties, clocked up 197,000 km last year, and the rest of the team travelled 122,000km. If only they could cash those flight points in for World Cup runs.
What a whopper
Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 12-year-old star of acclaimed film Whale Rider which opened in cinemas in New Zealand this week, has 'fessed up that a wee white lie helped secure her the role of heroine Pai. Asked if she could swim, Keisha told casting director Diana Rowan that she could, but in true Hollywood style a body double was needed for the leading lady's trickier shots in the surf. Final note Different until the end, quirky broadcaster Dylan Taite's funeral casket left Auckland's St Patricks Cathedral this week to the jarring strains of Sid Vicious' version of My Way.
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