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| Venue | Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 3rd, 5th, 6th January 1885 (3-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 4 | 
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Canterbury won by an innings and 74 runs | 
| Umpires | G Dickinson, C Frith, AM Ollivier, ECJ Stevens | 
| Close of play day 1 | Canterbury (1) 107/1 (Cotterill 42*, Secretan 56*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | Auckland (2) 18/1 (Mills 12*, Testro ?*) | 
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WE Barton | b Dunlop | 18 | - | - | |||
| JC Testro | c Wilding b Dunlop | 2 | - | - | |||
| CS Stafford | c Barnes b Wilding | 2 | - | - | |||
| SWG Coxon | c Longden b Barnes | 19 | - | - | |||
| DJF Lynch | b Wilding | 9 | 1 | - | |||
| *WW Robinson | c and b Wilding | 3 | - | - | |||
| CE MacCormick | b Wilding | 6 | - | - | |||
| GP Ewing | b Dunlop | 5 | - | - | |||
| +CH Osmond | c Fowke b Wilding | 19 | - | - | |||
| W Meldrum | b Wilding | 0 | - | - | |||
| E Mills | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (7 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 81.2 overs) | 92 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Barton), 2-21 (Testro), 3-24 (Stafford), 4-37 (Lynch), 5-44 (Robinson), 6-50 (MacCormick), 7-65 (Ewing), 8-85 (Coxon), 9-91 (Meldrum), 10-92 (Osmond, 81.2 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dunlop | 33 | 19 | 21 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wilding | 40.2 | 13 | 55 | 6 | - | 1 | |
| Barnes | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WJ Cotterill | b Meldrum | 44 | 1 | - | |||
| WV Millton | lbw b Meldrum | 7 | - | - | |||
| HH Secretan | b Mills | 72 | 2 | - | |||
| DA Ashby | b Mills | 17 | 2 | - | |||
| A Longden | b Mills | 12 | - | - | |||
| *F Wilding | c Barton b Mills | 104 | 8 | - | |||
| +JN Fowke | b Robinson | 36 | 1 | - | |||
| C Strange | b Mills | 9 | 1 | - | |||
| WEP Barnes | b Mills | 3 | - | - | |||
| GL Rayner | not out | 11 | 2 | - | |||
| DEL Dunlop | c Ewing b Mills | 2 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (13 b, 15 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 30 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 201 overs) | 347 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26 (Millton), 2-115 (Cotterill), 3-140 (Secretan), 4-151 (Ashby), 5-173 (Longden), 6-290 (Fowke), 7-326 (Wilding), 8-? (Barnes), 9-? (Strange), 10-346 (Dunlop, 201 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mills | 43 | 22 | 39 | 7 | - | - | |
| Meldrum | 62 | 37 | 81 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Lynch | 27 | 15 | 46 | 0 | - | - | |
| Testro | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Robinson | 30 | 3 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Barton | 8 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stafford | 25 | 1 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| E Mills | b Dunlop | 35 | - | - | |||
| SWG Coxon | b Dunlop | 5 | - | - | |||
| JC Testro | c Wilding b Dunlop | 20 | - | - | |||
| WE Barton | c Barnes b Ashby | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| CS Stafford | b Dunlop | 20 | 2 | - | |||
| DJF Lynch | lbw b Ashby | 17 | - | - | |||
| *WW Robinson | b Ashby | 8 | 1 | - | |||
| CE MacCormick | c sub b Dunlop | 6 | 1 | - | |||
| GP Ewing | c Millton b Ashby | 36 | 2 | - | |||
| +CH Osmond | b Dunlop | 16 | 1 | - | |||
| W Meldrum | not out | 2 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (2 b, 5 lb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 138.1 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Coxon), 2-59 (Testro), 3-68 (Barton), 4-72 (Mills), 5-98 (Stafford), 6-113 (Robinson), 7-118 (Lynch), 8-124 (MacCormick), 9-172 (Ewing), 10-181 (Osmond, 138.1 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dunlop | 54.1 | 35 | 45 | 6 | - | - | |
| Wilding | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | - | |
| Barnes | 12 | 8 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rayner | 28 | 14 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 42 | 14 | 69 | 4 | 2 | - | |