The Beige Brigade have announced some awards for the impressive showing by the Black Caps at the Twenty20 match at Eden Park on Thursday night with large amounts of beer going to the club of the winners.

The Hadlee Moustache & Perm Competition Winner - Chris Cairns (Lancaster Park-Woolston)
The overall shape of his mo' was unquestionable. Little twists on the end of the mo' complemented the grizzly sideburns in a wonderful way.

The Richard Simmons 'Big Hair' Winner - Hamish Marshall (Kaipara Flats)
This was special - something very special. Even though this was a moustache competition his appearance as the human microphone stole the show.

Highly commended

Daniel Vettori (Star-Varsity) AKA The Italian Yeti

Mathew Sinclair who developed a dirty handlebar moustache

Stephen Fleming (Eastern Suburbs) - who had on display the perfect example of the"fat slug" moustache

Commended

Kyle Mills (Howick Pakuranga) - the overall look was wonderful, open shirt, raggy hair and the Freddy Mercury pencil mo'

Andre Adams (Takapuna) - good use of the sweatband (a la Malcolm Marshall) and good gowth - but a little patchy.

Jeff Wilson (Appleby) - the blonde transparent mo' was innovative.

Craig McMillan (Shirley) - looked absolutely awful - brilliant effort in terms of overall coverage of the face

Brendan McCullum (Old Boys Collegians) - after a strong start earlier in the week, he shaved and only turned up with 5 o'clock shadow

Honourable mention

Michael Kasprowicz (University of Queensland) - our new favourite Asutralian cricketer after Boof was axed, terrific effort to clone Dennis Lillee

Jason Gillespie (Adelaide) - didn't do anything special for the event but still a contender

Unimpressed

Nathan Astle (Shirley) - disappointed to see that he had a better mo' at the domestic matches than last night

Scott Styris (Morrinsville) - had to shave for TV appearance last week, but clearly a man built for radio

Daryl Tuffey (Weymouth) - no effort

Lou Vincent (Takapuna) - having no facial hair to grow is not an excuse