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| Venue | MainPower Oval, Rangiora on 1st, 2nd, 3rd March 2008 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | PL Gasston, TJ Parlane |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Close of play day 2 | Canterbury Country (1) 132/5 (Frew 44*, Donkers 25*; 50.2 overs) |
| Canterbury Country first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PW Carey | c Patton b McClenaghan | 7 | 18 | 30 | - | - | |
| CG Bartholomeusz | b McClenaghan | 7 | 26 | 27 | - | - | |
| RM Frew | b Patton | 125 | 326 | 393 | 7 | - | |
| DH Fulton | c Lythe b McClenaghan | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| *+AW Robertson | c Lythe b Richards | 9 | 25 | 27 | - | - | |
| AJT Smith | c Findlay b McLennan | 23 | 35 | 49 | 2 | - | |
| BP Donkers | not out | 138 | 339 | 386 | 10 | - | |
| PW Borren | c Calkin b Lythe | 42 | 45 | 45 | 8 | - | |
| WD Bell | c and b Lythe | 7 | 12 | 14 | 1 | - | |
| MR Laffey | not out | 6 | 14 | 14 | 1 | - | |
| SGJ Murphy | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 8 lb, 1 nb, 12 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 497 minutes, 141 overs) | 390 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23 (Bartholomeusz), 2-24 (Carey), 3-24 (Fulton), 4-46 (Robertson), 5-85 (Smith), 6-303 (Frew), 7-368 (Borren), 8-382 (Bell) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McLennan | 23 | 5 | 53 | 1 | - | - | |
| McClenaghan | 34 | 7 | 84 | 3 | 4 | - | |
| Findlay | 13 | 1 | 37 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richards | 19 | 2 | 68 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Calkin | 7 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Schaw | 19 | 3 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lythe | 19 | 6 | 47 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| Patton | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DAJ Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| TI Lythe | did not bat | ||||||
| *BMK Patton | did not bat | ||||||
| JW de Terte | did not bat | ||||||
| +MP Taiaroa | did not bat | ||||||
| MJE Calkin | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Schaw | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Findlay | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Richards | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ McClenaghan | did not bat | ||||||
| BSM McLennan | did not bat | ||||||