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| Venue | Turnbull Thomson Park, Invercargill on 15th, 16th, 17th December 1973 (3-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 8 | 
| Toss | Toss not known | 
| Result | Southland won by 344 runs | 
| Umpires | ASH Cutler, BD Dawson | 
| Close of play day 1 | Central Otago (1) 80/2 (Barrie 36*, McKnight ?*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | Central Otago (2) 47/7 (Buttar 14*, Hansen 0*; 25 overs) | 
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +NR Thompson | b Anderson | 4 | |||||
| KJ O'Connor | c McSkimming b Petherick | 23 | |||||
| RW Anderson | lbw b McHutchon | 154 | 243 | 28 | - | ||
| GH Murdoch | c Buttar b McHutchon | 0 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | c McHutchon b Woods | 17 | |||||
| DM Crombie | c McKnight b Petherick | 52 | 4 | - | |||
| LD Hollands | c Buttar b Woods | 9 | |||||
| AJ Mahoney | b Petherick | 4 | |||||
| KA Nicholson | c Barrie b Petherick | 7 | |||||
| *JC Alabaster | c McSkimming b Woods | 0 | |||||
| GA Ashby | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (12 b, 13 lb, 7 nb) | 32 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 347 minutes, 89.2 overs) | 302 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Thompson), 2-84 (O'Connor), 3-104 (Murdoch), 4-155 (McKechnie), 5-247 (Anderson), 6-281, 7-286, 8-295, 9-302, 10-302 (89.2 ov) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 18 | 3 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Woods | 32 | 12 | 97 | 3 | - | - | |
| Buttar | 6 | 2 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 15.2 | 1 | 31 | 4 | - | - | |
| McHutchon | 7 | 1 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| McKnight | 9 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Barrie | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| McSkimming | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Central Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CW Buttar | b Ashby | 4 | |||||
| RJ Maxwell | c McKechnie b Mahoney | 42 | 89 | 8 | - | ||
| *J Barrie | c Thompson b Alabaster | 44 | 60 | 8 | - | ||
| OM Becker | c Thompson b Nicholson | 0 | |||||
| SG McKnight | c and b Alabaster | 15 | |||||
| SH McSkimming | b Mahoney | 10 | |||||
| LE Anderson | c McKechnie b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| +MA Hansen | b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| AJ McHutchon | lbw b Mahoney | 18 | |||||
| PJ Petherick | c McKechnie b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| NT Woods | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 151 minutes, 39.2 overs) | 139 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34 (Buttar), 2-48 (Becker), 3-88 (Barrie), 4-95 (Maxwell), 5-115, 6-116, 7-116, 8-123, 9-139, 10-139 (39.2 ov) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nicholson | 5 | 2 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 6 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 14.2 | 4 | 34 | 5 | - | - | |
| McKechnie | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mahoney | 12 | 4 | 21 | 3 | - | - | |
| Southland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +NR Thompson | lbw b McKnight | 45 | 193 | 7 | - | ||
| KJ O'Connor | c McSkimming b Woods | 9 | 22 | ||||
| RW Anderson | not out | 168 | 238 | 25 | 3 | ||
| GH Murdoch | not out | 10 | 67 | ||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| DM Crombie | did not bat | ||||||
| LD Hollands | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Mahoney | did not bat | ||||||
| KA Nicholson | did not bat | ||||||
| *JC Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| GA Ashby | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 3 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 263 minutes, 69 overs) | 243 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (O'Connor), 2-170 (Thompson) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 10 | 4 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Woods | 20 | 7 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 13 | 1 | 53 | 0 | - | - | |
| McHutchon | 3 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| McKnight | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Barrie | 13 | 6 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Central Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Petherick | hit wkt b Ashby | 7 | |||||
| RJ Maxwell | c Crombie b Ashby | 6 | |||||
| *J Barrie | b Ashby | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| OM Becker | lbw b Alabaster | 5 | |||||
| SG McKnight | st Thompson b Alabaster | 12 | |||||
| SH McSkimming | c Thompson b Ashby | 0 | |||||
| LE Anderson | c McKechnie b Ashby | 2 | |||||
| CW Buttar | b Ashby | 14 | |||||
| +MA Hansen | c Crombie b Alabaster | 3 | |||||
| AJ McHutchon | not out | 12 | 3 | - | |||
| NT Woods | b Ashby | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 108 minutes, 27.3 overs) | 62 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Maxwell), 2-11 (Barrie), 3-16 (Petherick), 4-18 (Becker), 5-18 (McSkimming), 6-22 (Anderson), 7-45 (McKnight), 8-50 (Hansen), 9-62 (Buttar), 10-62 (Woods, 27.3 ov) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nicholson | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 9.3 | 3 | 23 | 7 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 9 | 4 | 22 | 3 | - | - | |
| Mahoney | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |