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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 31st December 1960, 2nd January 1961 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Marylebone Cricket Club won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Marylebone Cricket Club won by an innings and 91 runs |
| Umpires | J Cowie, WT Martin |
| Close of play day 1 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 181/5 (Prideaux 110*, Murray 0*) |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Aim | b Smith | 10 | |||||
| BAG Murray | b Larter | 15 | |||||
| BW Sinclair | lbw b Larter | 0 | |||||
| PT Barton | lbw b Smith | 4 | |||||
| *JR Reid | c Murray b Larter | 0 | |||||
| IR Mason | c Prideaux b Allen | 7 | |||||
| EW Dempster | run out | 11 | |||||
| +TG McMahon | b Sayer | 6 | |||||
| EJ Sigley | c Murray b Allen | 6 | |||||
| RW Blair | c Russell b Sayer | 5 | |||||
| RE Reid | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 nb, 3 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50.1 overs) | 68 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23, 2-25, 3-26, 4-31, 5-32, 6-49, 7-52, 8-57, 9-67, 10-68 (50.1 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Larter | 12 | 4 | 17 | 3 | - | - | |
| Smith | 16 | 5 | 19 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sayer | 13.1 | 6 | 11 | 2 | - | - | |
| Barber | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Allen | 7 | 1 | 14 | 2 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WE Russell | b Blair | 1 | |||||
| RM Prideaux | c Dempster b JR Reid | 160 | |||||
| DEV Padgett | lbw b RE Reid | 17 | |||||
| RW Barber | c JR Reid b RE Reid | 40 | |||||
| JM Parks | c McMahon b Blair | 3 | |||||
| *W Watson | c McMahon b Sigley | 4 | |||||
| +JT Murray | b RE Reid | 1 | |||||
| DA Allen | c and b Dempster | 27 | |||||
| DR Smith | not out | 48 | |||||
| DM Sayer | st McMahon b JR Reid | 4 | |||||
| JDF Larter | b Blair | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 94 overs) | 317 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-38, 3-157, 4-167, 5-174, 6-187, 7-255, 8-261, 9-273, 10-317 (94 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 27 | 4 | 83 | 3 | - | - | |
| RE Reid | 29 | 4 | 88 | 3 | - | - | |
| JR Reid | 14 | 4 | 33 | 2 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 11 | 2 | 60 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sigley | 13 | 4 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wellington second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Aim | c Padgett b Barber | 31 | |||||
| BAG Murray | c Murray b Larter | 4 | |||||
| BW Sinclair | c Murray b Larter | 0 | |||||
| PT Barton | c Sayer b Larter | 39 | |||||
| *JR Reid | b Larter | 3 | |||||
| IR Mason | st Murray b Barber | 3 | |||||
| EW Dempster | b Smith | 25 | |||||
| EJ Sigley | c Russell b Allen | 29 | |||||
| RW Blair | c Prideaux b Allen | 6 | |||||
| +TG McMahon | c Murray b Smith | 2 | |||||
| RE Reid | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (11 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 55.4 overs) | 158 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5, 2-5, 3-73, 4-76, 5-87, 6-87, 7-149, 8-149, 9-152, 10-158 (55.4 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Larter | 12 | 4 | 29 | 4 | - | - | |
| Smith | 12 | 3 | 22 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sayer | 9 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Barber | 17 | 4 | 41 | 2 | - | - | |
| Allen | 5.4 | 2 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |