| misc28485 | |
| Venue | Eastern Reserve, Invercargill on 7th, 8th March 1906 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Southland won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Melbourne Cricket Club won by an innings and 359 runs |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne Cricket Club (1) 493/7 (Armstrong 333*, Wilkinson 6*; 67 overs) |
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DC Hamilton | st Henty b Armstrong | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| TH Crocket | b Armstrong | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| *J O'Halloran | c Henty b Ransford | 21 | |||||
| AV Poole | c Butler b Armstrong | 6 | |||||
| J Richards | b Armstrong | 1 | |||||
| J Huntley | lbw b Armstrong | 3 | |||||
| +NJ Keane | b Ransford | 0 | |||||
| JA Hamilton | b Ransford | 0 | |||||
| J McNeece | not out | 50 | 10 | - | |||
| C Whitaker | st Henty b Ransford | 0 | |||||
| W Sparrow | c and b Ransford | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 22.4 overs) | 99 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (DC Hamilton), 2-14 (Crocket), 3-20 (Poole), 4-21 (Richards), 5-27 (Huntley), 6-28 (Keane), 7-40 (JA Hamilton), 8-81 (O'Halloran), 9-97 (Whitaker), 10-99 (Sparrow, 22.4 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ransford | 11.4 | 2 | 27 | 5 | - | - | |
| Armstrong | 11 | 3 | 65 | 5 | - | - | |
| Melbourne Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Mailer | lbw b DC Hamilton | 1 | |||||
| F Vaughan | b DC Hamilton | 0 | |||||
| VS Ransford | c O'Halloran b Crocket | 68 | |||||
| *WW Armstrong | c O'Halloran b Poole | 335 | |||||
| AA Aitken | b Crocket | 54 | |||||
| H Irwin | b Poole | 11 | |||||
| PG Jennings | b Poole | 0 | |||||
| +GC Henty | c O'Halloran b Poole | 8 | |||||
| WE Wilkinson | run out (Whitaker) | 32 | |||||
| CR Laver | b Crocket | 12 | |||||
| C Butler | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | 14 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 75.2 overs) | 536 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Vaughan), 2-5 (Mailer), 3-142 (Ransford), 4-409 (Aitken), 5-442 (Irwin), 6-442 (Jennings), 7-482 (Henty), 8-498 (Armstrong), 9-535 (Wilkinson), 10-536 (Laver, 75.2 ov) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| O'Halloran | 22 | 3 | 133 | 0 | - | - | |
| DC Hamilton | 20 | 1 | 149 | 2 | - | - | |
| Poole | 16 | 0 | 109 | 4 | - | - | |
| Crocket | 10.2 | 0 | 82 | 3 | - | - | |
| Huntley | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| McNeece | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sparrow | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Southland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DC Hamilton | b Butler | 14 | |||||
| TH Crocket | st Henty b Butler | 3 | |||||
| J McNeece | c Vaughan b Butler | 19 | |||||
| *J O'Halloran | st Henty b Armstrong | 0 | |||||
| AV Poole | b Butler | 22 | |||||
| J Richards | c and b Armstrong | 0 | |||||
| J Huntley | lbw b Armstrong | 2 | |||||
| +NJ Keane | c Armstrong b Butler | 0 | |||||
| C Whitaker | c Laver b Armstrong | 1 | |||||
| JA Hamilton | b Armstrong | 13 | |||||
| W Sparrow | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 26 overs) | 78 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (DC Hamilton), 2-36 (McNeece), 3-36 (Crocket), 4-40 (O'Halloran), 5-40 (Richards), 6-44 (Huntley), 7-45 (Keane), 8-52 (Whitaker), 9-72 (Poole), 10-78 (JA Hamilton, 26 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Armstrong | 13 | 4 | 49 | 5 | - | - | |
| Butler | 13 | 3 | 25 | 5 | - | - | |