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| Venue | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th December 1955 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by an innings and 27 runs |
| Umpires | BJ Mohoni, MG Vijayasarathi |
| Close of play day 1 | India (1) 223/3 (Mankad 132*, Kripal Singh 59*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 21/1 (Sutcliffe 13*, Guy 0*) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (1) 208/5 (MacGibbon 28*, Poore 15*) |
| Close of play day 4 | New Zealand (2) 99/7 (Cave 14*, Moir 3*) |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MH Mankad | c sub (TG McMahon) b Poore | 223 | 470 | 22 | - | ||
| VL Mehra | c Harris b Hayes | 10 | |||||
| *PR Umrigar | b Cave | 15 | |||||
| VL Manjrekar | c Alabaster b Cave | 0 | |||||
| AG Kripal Singh | b Cave | 63 | |||||
| GS Ramchand | b MacGibbon | 22 | |||||
| NJ Contractor | c Petrie b MacGibbon | 16 | |||||
| DG Phadkar | not out | 37 | 1 | ||||
| +NS Tamhane | b Poore | 10 | |||||
| SR Patil | not out | 14 | |||||
| SP Gupte | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 8 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 158 overs) | 421 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36 (Mehra), 2-61 (Umrigar), 3-63 (Manjrekar), 4-230 (Kripal Singh), 5-281 (Ramchand), 6-347 (Contractor), 7-365 (Mankad), 8-377 (Tamhane) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hayes | 26 | 4 | 79 | 1 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 23 | 6 | 56 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cave | 48 | 23 | 77 | 3 | - | - | |
| Reid | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 25 | 4 | 83 | 0 | - | - | |
| Moir | 12 | 2 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Poore | 19 | 3 | 49 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sutcliffe | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | c Gupte b Ramchand | 73 | 157 | 10 | - | ||
| +EC Petrie | lbw b Gupte | 4 | |||||
| JW Guy | c Gupte b Ramchand | 23 | |||||
| JR Reid | lbw b Patil | 39 | 139 | 5 | 1 | ||
| PGZ Harris | lbw b Gupte | 19 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Mankad b Phadkar | 46 | 129 | 8 | - | ||
| MB Poore | c Umrigar b Phadkar | 17 | |||||
| *HB Cave | run out | 12 | |||||
| AM Moir | lbw b Gupte | 0 | |||||
| JC Alabaster | b Mankad | 16 | |||||
| JA Hayes | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 2 lb, 4 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 134.1 overs) | 258 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Petrie), 2-94 (Sutcliffe), 3-133 (Guy), 4-156 (Harris), 5-166 (Reid), 6-218 (Poore), 7-231 (MacGibbon), 8-232 (Moir), 9-258 (Cave), 10-258 (Alabaster, 134.1 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Phadkar | 28 | 10 | 53 | 2 | - | - | |
| Patil | 14 | 3 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 51 | 26 | 83 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 31 | 15 | 48 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mankad | 10.1 | 3 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | c Mankad b Gupte | 37 | |||||
| +EC Petrie | c Gupte b Phadkar | 4 | |||||
| JW Guy | lbw b Gupte | 2 | - | - | |||
| JR Reid | c Phadkar b Patil | 4 | |||||
| PGZ Harris | c Tamhane b Mankad | 7 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Patil b Gupte | 24 | |||||
| MB Poore | b Mankad | 0 | - | - | |||
| *HB Cave | c Umrigar b Mankad | 21 | |||||
| AM Moir | c Manjrekar b Gupte | 28 | |||||
| JC Alabaster | b Gupte | 4 | |||||
| JA Hayes | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 77.4 overs) | 136 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Petrie), 2-22 (Guy), 3-33 (Reid), 4-45 (Harris), 5-67 (Sutcliffe), 6-68 (Poore), 7-86 (MacGibbon), 8-117 (Cave), 9-136 (Moir), 10-136 (Alabaster, 77.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Phadkar | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 6 | 4 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Patil | 9 | 4 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 32.4 | 19 | 45 | 5 | - | - | |
| Mankad | 24 | 8 | 57 | 3 | - | - | |