| f20278 | |
| Venue | Ellis Park, Johannesburg on 5th, 7th, 8th December 1953 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | A Birkett, WN Eksteen |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealanders (1) 111/2 (Chapple 39*, Reid 27*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Transvaal (1) 145/8 (Taylor 64*, Adcock 0*; 29 overs) |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | b Ironside | 35 | |||||
| *GO Rabone | c and b Ironside | 7 | |||||
| ME Chapple | b Ironside | 48 | 165 | 5 | 1 | ||
| JR Reid | b Ironside | 27 | |||||
| LSM Miller | c Taylor b Charnas | 21 | |||||
| MB Poore | st Waite b Ironside | 9 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | b Ironside | 0 | |||||
| JEF Beck | c Waite b Adcock | 28 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Tayfield b Adcock | 18 | |||||
| RW Blair | not out | 6 | |||||
| GWF Overton | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (12 b, 1 lb, 3 nb, 1 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 331 minutes, 79.5 overs) | 216 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Rabone), 2-64 (Sutcliffe), 3-112 (Reid), 4-141 (Chapple), 5-159 (Miller), 6-160 (Mooney), 7-165 (Poore), 8-207 (Beck), 9-216 (MacGibbon), 10-216 (Overton, 79.5 ov) | |||||||
| Transvaal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Adcock | 21 | 4 | 57 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ironside | 33 | 9 | 85 | 6 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Clark | 13 | 3 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Charnas | 8.5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| Transvaal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WR Endean | c Sutcliffe b Reid | 18 | |||||
| +JHB Waite | b Blair | 8 | |||||
| PJM Gibb | c Chapple b Reid | 1 | |||||
| C Tayfield | c Rabone b Blair | 6 | |||||
| PL Winslow | b Blair | 3 | |||||
| JBR Maile | lbw b Blair | 24 | |||||
| AI Taylor | not out | 64 | 69 | 8 | 1 | ||
| DA Clark | b Reid | 14 | |||||
| M Charnas | lbw b MacGibbon | 4 | |||||
| NAT Adcock | not out | 0 | |||||
| DEJ Ironside | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 145 minutes, 29 overs) | 145 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Endean), 2-27 (Gibb), 3-29 (Waite), 4-33 (Winslow), 5-40 (Tayfield), 6-70 (Maile), 7-99 (Clark), 8-134 (Charnas) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 11 | 0 | 50 | 4 | - | - | |
| Reid | 10 | 0 | 61 | 3 | - | - | |
| Overton | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 6 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | b Tayfield | 88 | 202 | 5 | 3 | ||
| *GO Rabone | run out | 14 | |||||
| ME Chapple | c +Gibb b Clark | 0 | |||||
| JR Reid | b Tayfield | 27 | 6 | - | |||
| LSM Miller | c +Gibb b Winslow | 39 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | b Taylor | 3 | |||||
| MB Poore | not out | 65 | 114 | 10 | - | ||
| JEF Beck | not out | 5 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | did not bat | ||||||
| RW Blair | did not bat | ||||||
| GWF Overton | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 330 minutes, 85 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-66 (Rabone), 2-66 (Chapple), 3-128 (Reid), 4-145 (Sutcliffe), 5-150 (Mooney), 6-231 (Miller) | |||||||
| Transvaal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Adcock | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ironside | 11 | 4 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 13 | 2 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Clark | 11 | 2 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 7 | 2 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Charnas | 27 | 12 | 74 | 0 | - | - | |
| Endean | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Maile | 6 | 2 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Winslow | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |