Auckland have top-four destiny in their own hands

Auckland want to ensure they're in charge of their own destiny and they can go a long way towards that with a victory over Waikato in their ITM Cup battle at Eden Park tonight.

Auckland sit fourth on the table however at the moment there is no gurantees they willl make the semi-finals.

"It's a must win if we want to control our own destiny, we could lose it and other results go our way.

Waikato are four points behind us, we have a game in hand but even so they could go past us," Auckland coach Paul Feeny said.

"And Counties of course have the same number of games left as we've got and we'…