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| Venue | Technical High School Ground, Westport on 13th, 14th December 1947 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | West Coast (South Island) won by 127 runs |
| Umpires | R Marshall, WHA Vincent |
| Close of play day 1 | Buller (1) 98/4 |
| West Coast (South Island) first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JW Peake | b Humphries | 5 | |||||
| FW Pascoe | lbw b Brown | 17 | |||||
| RH Donaldson | c Marshall b Brown | 24 | |||||
| ML Marshall | b Humphries | 5 | |||||
| WA Meates | c Bateman b Humphries | 33 | 8 | - | |||
| CD Dewar | c McDonald b Dunn | 10 | |||||
| A Barlow | b Phipps | 9 | |||||
| *LC Lindley | b Phipps | 1 | |||||
| +HMR Vernon | c and b Phipps | 10 | |||||
| AJ Abelson | not out | 19 | |||||
| R Lee | b Phipps | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 42.5 overs) | 146 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Peake), 2-51, 3-52, 4-69, 5-92, 6-106, 7-110, 8-115, 9-128, 10-146 (42.5 ov) | |||||||
| Buller bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hickford | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Humphries | 15 | 2 | 40 | 3 | - | - | |
| Phipps | 13.5 | 5 | 28 | 4 | - | - | |
| Brown | 6 | 1 | 29 | 2 | - | - | |
| McDonald | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dunn | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Buller first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Marshall | b Abelson | 20 | |||||
| A Cumming | c Abelson b Barlow | 21 | |||||
| TJ Phipps | lbw b Lindley | 30 | |||||
| *SC Stewart | c Barlow b Dewar | 15 | |||||
| DGB Bateman | lbw b Dewar | 12 | |||||
| J Brown | b Lindley | 9 | |||||
| O Smallholme | c Barlow b Lindley | 6 | |||||
| AJR Dunn | c Lee b Lindley | 9 | |||||
| RR Humphries | not out | 3 | |||||
| GH Hickford | b Lindley | 0 | |||||
| J McDonald | c Dewar b Lindley | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 82.5 overs) | 129 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-40, 2-44, 3-66, 4-98, 5-98, 6-110, 7-120, 8-125, 9-125, 10-129 (82.5 ov) | |||||||
| West Coast (South Island) bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lee | 17 | 5 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lindley | 36.5 | 14 | 43 | 6 | - | - | |
| Abelson | 15 | 7 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Meates | 4 | 2 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Barlow | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dewar | 9 | 4 | 22 | 2 | - | - | |
| West Coast (South Island) second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JW Peake | c Stewart b Humphries | 0 | |||||
| FW Pascoe | c Hickford b Brown | 7 | |||||
| RH Donaldson | c McDonald b Humphries | 17 | |||||
| ML Marshall | b Hickford | 35 | |||||
| WA Meates | lbw b Phipps | 74 | 10 | - | |||
| CD Dewar | lbw b Cumming | 5 | |||||
| A Barlow | c Cumming b Humphries | 9 | |||||
| *LC Lindley | c Smallholme b Humphries | 3 | |||||
| +HMR Vernon | c Smallholme b Humphries | 15 | |||||
| AJ Abelson | not out | 14 | |||||
| R Lee | lbw b Hickford | 7 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.1 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Peake), 2-26, 3-26, 4-123, 5-132, 6-146, 7-156, 8-164, 9-177, 10-197 (68.1 ov) | |||||||
| Buller bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Humphries | 19 | 5 | 52 | 5 | - | - | |
| Phipps | 20 | 4 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brown | 8 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cumming | 9 | 5 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dunn | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hickford | 8.1 | 1 | 22 | 2 | - | - | |
| Buller second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| A Cumming | b Abelson | 1 | |||||
| R Marshall | b Lee | 1 | |||||
| TJ Phipps | st Vernon b Lindley | 15 | |||||
| J Brown | c Pascoe b Abelson | 5 | |||||
| *SC Stewart | c Lee b Lindley | 13 | |||||
| AJR Dunn | c Dewar b Lindley | 7 | |||||
| DGB Bateman | b Lee | 0 | |||||
| O Smallholme | c Meates b Lindley | 12 | |||||
| RR Humphries | b Donaldson | 6 | |||||
| GH Hickford | b Donaldson | 4 | |||||
| J McDonald | not out | 10 | |||||
| Extras | (9 b, 4 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.1 overs) | 87 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-4, 3-14, 4-39, 5-44, 6-47, 7-57, 8-67, 9-73, 10-87 (32.1 ov) | |||||||
| West Coast (South Island) bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lee | 13 | 2 | 25 | 2 | - | - | |
| Abelson | 6 | 0 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Lindley | 10 | 2 | 31 | 4 | - | - | |
| Donaldson | 3.1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | - | - | |