| f24053 | |
| Venue | Newlands, Cape Town on 24th, 25th, 27th November 1961 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Western Province won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DV Collins, JE Warner |
| Close of play day 1 | Western Province (1) 315/9 (Ferrandi 81*, Bromfield 6*; 124 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (1) 467/6 (Dick 13*, Alabaster 10*) |
| Western Province first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Westcott | c Dick b Cameron | 0 | |||||
| WL Taylor | c Alabaster b Sparling | 56 | 174 | 5 | - | ||
| *GAS Innes | c Dick b Cameron | 29 | 90 | ||||
| PL van der Merwe | lbw b Reid | 30 | |||||
| VT McCulloch | c Dick b Bartlett | 27 | |||||
| DWH Whitefield | st Dick b Reid | 13 | |||||
| +JH Ferrandi | not out | 81 | 123 | 9 | - | ||
| JE Pothecary | c Dick b Alabaster | 21 | |||||
| JE Commins | lbw b Alabaster | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| JC Kerby | b Sparling | 26 | |||||
| HD Bromfield | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 14 lb, 5 nb, 2 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 367 minutes, 124 overs) | 315 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-65, 3-123, 4-143, 5-164, 6-179, 7-206, 8-206, 9-304 | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cameron | 29 | 9 | 59 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bartlett | 21 | 8 | 51 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reid | 20 | 6 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 27 | 5 | 81 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sparling | 20 | 5 | 47 | 2 | - | - | |
| Chapple | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JT Sparling | c and b Bromfield | 37 | |||||
| GT Dowling | b Pothecary | 43 | |||||
| PT Barton | b Bromfield | 5 | |||||
| SN McGregor | c and b Bromfield | 51 | 89 | 6 | - | ||
| *JR Reid | st Ferrandi b van der Merwe | 203 | 224 | 25 | 4 | ||
| ME Chapple | c Ferrandi b Commins | 96 | |||||
| +AE Dick | lbw b Kerby | 13 | |||||
| JC Alabaster | c Whitefield b Kerby | 14 | |||||
| BW Yuile | run out | 0 | |||||
| GA Bartlett | c Pothecary b van der Merwe | 41 | 41 | 5 | 1 | ||
| FJ Cameron | not out | 10 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 5 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 420 minutes, 155.5 overs) | 523 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-64, 2-74, 3-111, 4-187, 5-431, 6-447, 7-471, 8-471, 9-485, 10-523 (155.5 ov) | |||||||
| Western Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Pothecary | 31 | 6 | 102 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kerby | 27 | 6 | 98 | 2 | - | - | |
| Westcott | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bromfield | 41 | 10 | 129 | 3 | - | - | |
| van der Merwe | 26.5 | 7 | 68 | 2 | - | - | |
| Commins | 26 | 2 | 110 | 1 | - | - | |
| Innes | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Western Province second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Westcott | st Dick b Alabaster | 22 | |||||
| WL Taylor | lbw b Alabaster | 61 | 113 | ||||
| *GAS Innes | run out | 7 | |||||
| PL van der Merwe | lbw b Reid | 47 | |||||
| VT McCulloch | c Reid b Alabaster | 5 | |||||
| DWH Whitefield | c Barton b Cameron | 55 | |||||
| +JH Ferrandi | not out | 25 | 96 | ||||
| JE Pothecary | b Cameron | 7 | |||||
| JE Commins | c Dick b Cameron | 0 | |||||
| JC Kerby | c Reid b Dowling | 7 | |||||
| HD Bromfield | b Chapple | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 2 lb, 1 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 296 minutes, 107.3 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-54, 2-78, 3-100, 4-116, 5-177, 6-211, 7-228, 8-228, 9-242, 10-247 (107.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cameron | 25 | 11 | 44 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bartlett | 16 | 2 | 49 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reid | 9 | 4 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 36 | 9 | 87 | 3 | - | - | |
| Sparling | 11 | 4 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chapple | 2.3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| Yuile | 6 | 3 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dowling | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |