Front, from left: Mark Richardson, Bert Sutcliffe, Glenn Turner; back: Ken Rutherford, Roger Blunt. Photograph © Richard Dingwall

It's one of the more amazing feats in New Zealand's cricket history, and by the beauty of modern technology it has been enshrined for all time.

The feat is the scoring of triple centuries for New Zealand.

It has been done only five times, and all five players were from Dunedin, four of them members of the Albion Cricket Club in Dunedin. The fifth was from the neighbouring Carisbrook Cricket Club.

In honour of the fact Dunedin computer expert Richard Dingwall produced a computer generated photograph of all five participants.

The odd man out, if he could be called that, was Carisbrook player Roger Blunt, the first of the triple century club.

He scored his 338 not out for Otago against Canterbury at Lancaster Park on December 26-27 in 1931.

Next was the recently deceased champion left-hander Bert Sutcliffe, who scored two triples centuries. The first of 355 was against Auckland at Carisbrook on December 31, 1949 and January 2, 1950. The second, the world record for a left-hander was 385 for Otago against Canterbury at Lancaster Park on December 26 and 27, 1952.

Glenn Turner, New Zealand's leading run scorer achieved his triple, as his 100th century for Worcestershire against Warwickshire at New Road, Worcester on May 29 1982. He finished on 311 not out.

Ken Rutherford was playing for New Zealand against D B Close's XI at Scarborough on the 1986 tour of England when he scored his 317 on September 1.

And last year on September 9 and 10, Mark Richardson completed the quintet when scoring 306 for New Zealand against Zimbabwe A at Kwekwe.

The five are pictured in front of the Albion Pavilion at Culling Park on April 28, 2001.

They are: back, from left, Ken Rutherford and Roger Blunt; front, Mark Richardson, Bert Sutcliffe and Glenn Turner.

© CricInfo