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| Venue | Sportsground, Palmerston North on 24th, 25th, 26th March 1961 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Hawke's Bay won on first innings) |
| Umpires | GH Stroud, PG Thomas |
| Close of play day 1 | Hawke's Bay (1) 193/6 (Smith 52*, Brian 6*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Manawatu (1) 106/6 |
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RE Payne | c Hermansson b Yuile | 21 | |||||
| PJC Coutts | b Harford | 16 | |||||
| RG Small | c Grady b Harford | 58 | |||||
| MJF Shrimpton | c Thomson b Yuile | 5 | |||||
| KFH Smith | b Yuile | 56 | |||||
| RM Schofield | c Kelly b Finlay | 0 | |||||
| BWH Sergent | lbw b Harford | 20 | |||||
| DE Brian | c Grady b Langridge | 39 | |||||
| KE Dunning | c Milburn b Yuile | 0 | |||||
| KA Fulford | c Harford b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| +BE Barker | not out | 10 | |||||
| Extras | (12 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 83.1 overs) | 240 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-38, 2-50, 3-97, 4-115, 5-124, 6-185, 7-208, 8-218, 9-219, 10-240 (83.1 ov) | |||||||
| Manawatu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Finlay | 13 | 2 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Langridge | 12.1 | 2 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Harford | 15 | 2 | 28 | 3 | - | - | |
| Yuile | 25 | 8 | 49 | 4 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 17 | 4 | 61 | 1 | - | - | |
| Milburn | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Manawatu first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Turner | b Fulford | 21 | |||||
| PA Maunder | b Fulford | 14 | |||||
| B Milburn | c Smith b Brian | 9 | |||||
| BW Yuile | b Fulford | 0 | |||||
| *NS Harford | b Fulford | 21 | |||||
| RA Kelly | c Smith b Fulford | 4 | |||||
| DA Grady | lbw b Brian | 28 | |||||
| JCA Thomson | b Fulford | 8 | |||||
| +GL Hermansson | c Fulford b Brian | 7 | |||||
| D Langridge | not out | 3 | |||||
| R Finlay | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 3 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 67.1 overs) | 125 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-33, 2-40, 3-47, 4-47, 5-57, 6-88, 7-113, 8-117, 9-125 (67.1 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dunning | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | |
| Brian | 24.1 | 2 | 43 | 3 | - | - | |
| Fulford | 28 | 12 | 29 | 6 | - | - | |
| Smith | 9 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Schofield | 2 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |