Northern Districts player Scott Christopher Kuggeleijn, 24, has for the last week and a half been standing trial on a single charge of raping a woman in her bed, following a night of drinking in Hamilton in May, 2015.

Six and a half days' worth of evidence, testimony, cross-examination and more than a day of deliberations have produced no resolution and a possible retrial in a high-profile rape case.

A jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the rape trial of top cricketer Scott Kuggeleijn.

The 24-year-old Northern Districts player has for the last week and a half been standing trial on a single charge of raping a woman in her bed, following a night of drinking in Hamilton in May, 2015.

DOMINICO ZAPATA/FAIRFAX NZ Scott Kuggeleijn, followed by his family, leaves the Hamilton District Court after the jury in his rape trial was unable to reach a verdict.

After deliberating for a day, the jury returned shortly after 2pm on Wednesday to announce it could not reach a verdict.

Kuggeleijn slightly shook his head as Judge Philip Connell announced the end of the trial at the Hamilton District Court, soon after receiving a message from the jurors advising they would not be able to come to either a unanimous or a majority decision.

"That is not a situation where it could ever be achieved ... I'm going to ask you to stop deliberations now," Connell said before thanking the jury for being "most attentive" and discharging them.

"It's an unfortunate conclusion of these things for you today. It's unfortunate that it's happened," Judge Connell told Kuggeleijn.

The jury of eight men and four women initially retired at 11.30am on Tuesday to consider their verdict. They returned to the courtroom just once, after finding and querying what turned out to be a typographical error in the court transcripts.

Kuggeleijn and his family left the court without comment after the jury came back, but the case will come back for a callover date on September 8 and another trial is possible.

The jury was earlier told the alleged victim and Kuggeleijn had been drinking at a friend's party in another house in Hamilton before heading into town, and then back to her house.

​The pair had gone to bed and had begun kissing and fondling each other. Although she was intoxicated at the time, the woman allegedly made it clear to him on two separate occasions she did not want matters to proceed any further.

After falling asleep for a time, the pair awoke about dawn the next day, when Kuggeleijn then allegedly lay on top of her, pinioned her arms over her head and – despite her alleged protestations – raped her.

The Crown prosecution was led by Jacinda Foster, while Philip Morgan QC handled Kuggeleijn's defence. Both declined to comment on the outcome of the case as they left court on Wednesday afternoon.

Likewise Kuggeleijn, accompanied by his family, had little to say to media outside court.

Morgan did not respond to a request to clarify whether he will make an application to have the rape charge withdrawn.

Originally scheduled to run four days, the trial took much longer than anticipated. The equivalent of a full day was taken up by legal discussions in chambers, which the media is prevented from reporting.

The 20-year-old complainant took the stand early on. Under cross examination by Morgan said she initially took a non-forceful response to his advances when they were both in bed together, in the early hours of the morning.

"I was saying no," she said. "I was not coming out all guns blazing. I thought I should be adequate saying no. It should not matter what tone of voice I was saying it."

Another exchange between Morgan and the complainant focused on whether the woman had used the word "no", right before Kuggeleijn allegedly raped her at dawn.

"I put this to you: In the morning period the word 'no' never passed your lips. You were silent throughout."

"That is completely not correct," the woman said.

She later said she said no "several times".

"When he climbed on top of me I was still repeatedly saying no.

"He told me to shush. He was getting more and more forceful [and] stronger. He pinned my hands above my head. I was stuck. I could not move. I could not get him off me. I was stuck there."

Later in the trial, Kuggeleijn told the court he did not believe anything untoward was taking place as they were having sex, and the woman had not said "no" or had told him to stop at that time.

"She was breathing heavily. She seemed like she was enjoying it," the court heard.