| f17015 | |
| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 5th, 7th, 8th January 1946 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 8 runs |
| Umpires | CW Moore, CK Scott |
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 403/9 (Hemmingson 12*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Wellington (1) 153/1 (Duffy 66*, Rice 5*) |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HT Pearson | lbw b Rabone | 72 | 168 | 7 | 1 | ||
| EM Meuli | c Mooney b Hatch | 56 | 128 | ||||
| AC Kerr | c Cave b Hatch | 0 | |||||
| VJ Scott | b Hatch | 62 | 168 | 4 | - | ||
| *WM Wallace | c Cave b Duffy | 77 | 82 | 8 | 2 | ||
| OC Cleal | c Rabone b Ell | 39 | |||||
| C Burke | c Mooney b Hatch | 37 | |||||
| +LAW Kent | c Barber b Beard | 25 | |||||
| FE Hemmingson | not out | 12 | |||||
| DC Cleverley | st Mooney b Beard | 2 | |||||
| ES Prentice | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 11 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 135 overs) | 403 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-121 (Meuli), 2-121 (Kerr), 3-167 (Pearson), 4-268 (Scott), 5-281 (Wallace), 6-355 (Cleal), 7-366 (Burke), 8-397 (Kent), 9-403 (Cleverley, 135 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hatch | 41 | 10 | 104 | 4 | - | 2 | |
| Cave | 29 | 9 | 67 | 0 | - | - | |
| Beard | 25 | 5 | 63 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| Rabone | 10 | 1 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Duffy | 22 | 2 | 64 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rice | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ell | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EWT Tindill | b Kerr | 73 | 180 | 3 | - | ||
| RJ Duffy | c Pearson b Prentice | 71 | 215 | - | - | ||
| *HF Rice | c Pearson b Kerr | 5 | |||||
| JA Ell | b Cleverley | 23 | 50 | 3 | - | ||
| RT Barber | c Cleverley b Burke | 16 | 40 | ||||
| +FLH Mooney | c Prentice b Hemmingson | 7 | |||||
| RJ Kemp | b Cleal | 32 | |||||
| HB Cave | b Kerr | 3 | |||||
| GO Rabone | c Hemmingson b Burke | 1 | |||||
| DD Beard | b Kerr | 8 | |||||
| RK Hatch | not out | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 4 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 134.1 overs) | 256 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-139 (Tindill), 2-157 (Rice), 3-159 (Duffy), 4-195 (Barber), 5-197 (Ell), 6-215 (Mooney), 7-227 (Cave), 8-228 (Rabone), 9-252 (Beard), 10-256 (Kemp, 134.1 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Prentice | 21 | 1 | 65 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cleverley | 22 | 6 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Burke | 33 | 14 | 53 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cleal | 17.1 | 8 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kerr | 26 | 7 | 47 | 4 | - | - | |
| Hemmingson | 15 | 5 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HT Pearson | c Rabone b Cave | 0 | |||||
| EM Meuli | c Mooney b Cave | 20 | |||||
| AC Kerr | lbw b Cave | 6 | |||||
| OC Cleal | c Rabone b Rice | 22 | |||||
| +LAW Kent | not out | 10 | |||||
| VJ Scott | not out | 2 | |||||
| *WM Wallace | did not bat | ||||||
| C Burke | did not bat | ||||||
| FE Hemmingson | did not bat | ||||||
| DC Cleverley | did not bat | ||||||
| ES Prentice | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 2 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 24 overs) | 69 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Pearson), 2-10 (Kerr), 3-39 (Meuli), 4-57 (Cleal) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hatch | 9 | 3 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cave | 12 | 2 | 30 | 3 | - | - | |
| Rice | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wellington second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EWT Tindill | c Pearson b Cleverley | 96 | 110 | 11 | - | ||
| *HF Rice | st Kent b Cleverley | 13 | |||||
| JA Ell | b Cleverley | 13 | |||||
| RJ Kemp | c sub b Cleverley | 16 | |||||
| DD Beard | b Cleverley | 27 | 15 | 6 | - | ||
| RT Barber | c Wallace b Cleverley | 0 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | b Cleverley | 7 | |||||
| RJ Duffy | c Kerr b Cleal | 23 | |||||
| RK Hatch | b Cleverley | 0 | |||||
| GO Rabone | not out | 1 | |||||
| HB Cave | c Kent b Cleal | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 7 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 38.4 overs) | 208 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Rice), 2-46 (Ell), 3-82 (Kemp), 4-122 (Beard), 5-124 (Barber), 6-136 (Mooney), 7-201 (Duffy), 8-203 (Tindill), 9-205 (Hatch), 10-208 (Cave, 38.4 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cleverley | 18 | 0 | 75 | 8 | - | - | |
| Burke | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cleal | 14.4 | 0 | 75 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kerr | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |