misc31984	Otago v New Zealand Universities
	Other matches in New Zealand 1956/57
Venue	Logan Park, Dunedin on 23rd, 24th April 1957 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Otago won the toss and decided to bat
Result	New Zealand Universities won by 2 wickets
Umpires	RC Harwood, JM Porteous
Close of play day 1	New Zealand Universities (1) 26/1

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Otago first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WS Haig	c Sparling b Irwin	5
PJ Skelton	b Simons	22
SN McGregor	b Kent	1
SG McKnight	b Sparling	7
RAJ Blair	b Sparling	77
*B Sutcliffe	c Alabaster b Simons	73
+T Flaws	not out	21
ST Jones	lbw b Sparling	6
MF Sandri	b Kent	9
JN Graves	did not bat
FJ Cameron	did not bat
Extras	(6 b, 2 lb)	8
Total	(8 wickets, declared, 91 overs)	229
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?

New Zealand Universities bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Kent	20	5	46	2	-	-
Irwin	12	1	29	1	-	-
Simons	21	2	62	2	-	-
Sparling	24	6	32	3	-	-
Alabaster	6	0	29	0	-	-
Gallop	8	0	23	0	-	-

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New Zealand Universities first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WI Axford	b Cameron	28
RF Hunter	b Haig	8
JF Kent	b Cameron	3
*GD Alabaster	c Flaws b Graves	2
GT Buist	c McKnight b Skelton	22
HR Carver	b Cameron	0
PM Irwin	lbw b Sandri	14
JT Sparling	b Sutcliffe	0
+MM McElroy	st Flaws b McKnight	11
DL Gallop	lbw b Jones	12
RB Simons	not out	5
Extras	(6 b, 1 lb)	7
Total	(all out, 75.2 overs)	113
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-113 (75.2 ov)

Otago bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Cameron	17	9	11	3	-	-
Sandri	15	5	21	1	-	-
Haig	11	5	16	1	-	-
Graves	11	3	22	1	-	-
Sutcliffe	10	2	17	1	-	-
McGregor	3	1	5	0	-	-
Blair	2	1	2	0	-	-
Skelton	2	1	2	1	-	-
McKnight	2	0	4	1	-	-
Jones	2.2	0	6	1	-	-

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Otago second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+T Flaws	not out	8
ST Jones	lbw b Alabaster	17
MF Sandri	c Kent b Sparling	5
JN Graves	lbw b Kent	7
FJ Cameron	b Alabaster	12
SG McKnight	not out	4
WS Haig	did not bat
PJ Skelton	did not bat
SN McGregor	did not bat
RAJ Blair	did not bat
*B Sutcliffe	did not bat
Extras	(1 b)	1
Total	(4 wickets, declared, 21 overs)	54
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?

New Zealand Universities bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Kent	7	2	17	1	-	-
Irwin	5	2	10	0	-	-
Sparling	4	0	12	1	-	-
Alabaster	3	0	6	2	-	-
Buist	2	0	8	0	-	-

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New Zealand Universities second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WI Axford	run out	36
RF Hunter	b Graves	13
*GD Alabaster	c McGregor b Sutcliffe	58
GT Buist	lbw b Haig	0
HR Carver	lbw b Haig	0
PM Irwin	b Sutcliffe	16
JT Sparling	lbw b Sutcliffe	4
+MM McElroy	not out	20
DL Gallop	b Sandri	16
JF Kent	not out	5
RB Simons	did not bat
Extras	(6 b)	6
Total	(8 wickets, 55.5 overs)	174
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?

Otago bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Cameron	10	1	24	0	-	-
Sandri	8.5	1	32	1	-	-
Haig	18	2	50	2	-	-
Graves	6	2	20	1	-	-
Sutcliffe	13	2	42	3	-	-

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Notes
--> New Zealand Universities first innings batting adds 1 run under

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