| misc49135 | |
| Venue | Owen Delany Park, Taupo on 3rd, 4th January 1998 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Midlands won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (Midlands won on first innings) |
| Umpires | JI Dykes, SM Wardill |
| Scorers | WI Davey, GG Schache |
| Close of play day 1 | Midlands (1) 109/4 (Baber 38*, Short 12*) |
| Counties Manukau first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJC Shepherd | c Baber b Clark | 2 | 10 | 9 | - | - | |
| *ML Lucas | c Parkes b Clark | 27 | 72 | 92 | 4 | - | |
| SJ Peterson | c Parkes b J Davey | 89 | 153 | 177 | 17 | - | |
| MG Downie | c Parkes b Short | 27 | 30 | 38 | 4 | - | |
| S Purdie | c Claydon b J Davey | 44 | 38 | 72 | 8 | - | |
| NS Stowers | lbw b Baber | 13 | 43 | 51 | 1 | - | |
| SD Stevens | c A Davey b Baber | 23 | 50 | 44 | 4 | - | |
| +ML McMillan | lbw b Baber | 11 | 30 | 32 | - | - | |
| WS Ross | c Claydon b Baber | 7 | 24 | 28 | - | - | |
| JP Crossan | not out | 3 | 9 | 12 | - | - | |
| EM Sloane | c McGregor b Dodds | 0 | 5 | 6 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 20 lb, 28 nb) | 50 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 285 minutes, 75 overs) | 296 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Shepherd, 1.6 ov), 2-97 (Lucas, 22.5 ov), 3-154 (Downie, 31.5 ov), 4-216 (Peterson, 46.4 ov), 5-235 (Purdie, 50.2 ov), 6-265 (Stowers, 61.6 ov), 7-276 (Stevens, 65.4 ov), 8-287 (McMillan, 71.6 ov), 9-294 (Ross, 73.3 ov), 10-296 (Sloane, 75 ov) | |||||||
| Midlands bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dodds | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Clark | 16 | 1 | 77 | 2 | - | 12 | |
| Claydon | 14 | 7 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Short | 9 | 1 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| J Davey | 9 | 3 | 32 | 2 | - | - | |
| Baber | 13 | 3 | 25 | 4 | - | - | |
| Donovan | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Midlands first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PA Baber | not out | 125 | 283 | 366 | 14 | - | |
| A Davey | lbw b Crossan | 4 | 14 | 23 | 1 | - | |
| J McGregor | b Purdie | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | |
| *M Donovan | c McMillan b Ross | 18 | 50 | 58 | 3 | - | |
| +D Parkes | c McMillan b Crossan | 9 | 27 | 28 | 1 | - | |
| J Short | c Lucas b Crossan | 16 | 45 | 47 | 1 | - | |
| C Wills | not out | 112 | 191 | 200 | 16 | - | |
| J Davey | did not bat | ||||||
| J Claydon | did not bat | ||||||
| B Clark | did not bat | ||||||
| SC Dodds | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 15 lb, 16 nb, 3 w) | 45 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 366 minutes, 100 overs) | 330 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23 (A Davey, 5.2 ov), 2-26 (McGregor, 6.3 ov), 3-76 (Donovan, 20.1 ov), 4-94 (Parkes, 28.3 ov), 5-118 (Short, 42.1 ov) | |||||||
| Counties Manukau bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Purdie | 5 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Crossan | 21 | 4 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Ross | 19 | 6 | 62 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Sloane | 21 | 6 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stevens | 10 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Peterson | 18 | 2 | 55 | 0 | - | - | |
| Shepherd | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Downie | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lucas | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |