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| Venue | Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th January 1953 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Wellington won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Central Districts 4; Wellington 2 |
| Umpires | RA Nottle, LC Quinton |
| Close of play day 1 | Central Districts (1) 6/0 (Hunter 1*, Turner 4*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Central Districts (1) 224/4 (Miller 44*, Rowe 25*) |
| Close of play day 3 | No play |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RA Vance | run out | 30 | |||||
| PM McCaw | run out | 11 | |||||
| T Meale | run out | 76 | |||||
| DS St John | c Botting b Cave | 0 | |||||
| *JR Reid | b Cave | 5 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | b Beard | 76 | |||||
| BWH Sergent | c Botting b Beard | 36 | |||||
| FE Fisher | c Beard b Challies | 2 | |||||
| LC Butler | lbw b Challies | 0 | |||||
| RW Blair | b Challies | 4 | |||||
| WR Perkins | not out | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 122.2 overs) | 253 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-40, 2-50, 3-52, 4-64, 5-183, 6-220, 7-223, 8-223, 9-239, 10-253 (122.2 ov) | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Beard | 47.2 | 20 | 67 | 2 | - | - |
| Leggat | 16 | 3 | 36 | 0 | - | - |
| Cave | 36 | 10 | 61 | 2 | - | - |
| Challies | 19 | 3 | 67 | 3 | - | - |
| Hunter | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - |
| Central Districts first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AA Hunter | run out | 62 | |||||
| BA Turner | st Mooney b Fisher | 9 | |||||
| EM Meuli | c Reid b Blair | 71 | |||||
| LSM Miller | not out | 103 | |||||
| IH Ching | c Reid b Blair | 6 | |||||
| *CG Rowe | c Mooney b Fisher | 35 | |||||
| DD Beard | b Fisher | 0 | |||||
| IB Leggat | c St John b Butler | 36 | |||||
| HB Cave | not out | 28 | |||||
| +GS Botting | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Challies | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 8 lb, 4 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 167 overs) | 368 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25, 2-144, 3-163, 4-177, 5-240, 6-240, 7-289 | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Blair | 35 | 10 | 71 | 2 | - | - |
| Fisher | 40 | 17 | 82 | 3 | - | - |
| Reid | 27 | 7 | 50 | 0 | - | - |
| Sergent | 27 | 12 | 45 | 0 | - | - |
| Perkins | 14 | 3 | 52 | 0 | - | - |
| Butler | 24 | 5 | 50 | 1 | - | - |
| Wellington second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +FLH Mooney | b Cave | 25 | |||||
| PM McCaw | c Leggat b Beard | 4 | |||||
| T Meale | b Challies | 2 | |||||
| DS St John | c Rowe b Challies | 15 | |||||
| *JR Reid | st Botting b Challies | 53 | |||||
| RA Vance | not out | 14 | |||||
| BWH Sergent | lbw b Challies | 0 | |||||
| FE Fisher | c Cave b Challies | 4 | |||||
| LC Butler | not out | 5 | |||||
| RW Blair | did not bat | ||||||
| WR Perkins | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 4 lb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 58 overs) | 134 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31, 2-45, 3-86, 4-107, 5-111, 6-111, 7-119 | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Beard | 14 | 3 | 40 | 1 | - | - |
| Leggat | 11 | 6 | 14 | 0 | - | - |
| Cave | 16 | 9 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| Challies | 15 | 3 | 52 | 5 | - | - |
| Miller | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | - |