| a852 | |
| Venue | Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 10th December 1972 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Central Districts won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Otago won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | M Rangi, GH Stroud |
| Player of the Match | GM Turner |
| Central Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| PJC Coutts | c Turner b Congdon | 18 | |||||
| DH Payton | c Anderson b Powell | 48 | |||||
| HC Sampson | c Turner b Powell | 24 | |||||
| DW Neal | b Congdon | 13 | |||||
| *MJF Shrimpton | c Lees b Cushen | 28 | |||||
| +IR Snook | not out | 39 | |||||
| DR O'Sullivan | run out | 2 | |||||
| BL Cairns | run out | 3 | |||||
| AB Jordan | lbw b Andrews | 0 | |||||
| JH Howell | run out | 1 | |||||
| BA Stewart | c Lees b Powell | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36.7 overs) | 182 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-40, 2-59, 3-106, 4-112, 5-169, 6-177, 7-179, 8-179, 9-182, 10-182 (36.7 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Andrews | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.33 |
| Nicholson | 8 | 0 | 47 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.88 |
| Congdon | 8 | 3 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 2.62 |
| Cushen | 8 | 0 | 46 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 5.75 |
| Powell | 6.7 | 0 | 42 | 3 | - | - | 18.33 | 6.11 |
| Otago innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GM Turner | not out | 73 | |||||
| WL Blair | c Snook b Jordan | 0 | |||||
| BE Congdon | b Cairns | 15 | |||||
| RW Anderson | c Sampson b Cairns | 22 | |||||
| KO Campbell | c Sampson b Howell | 12 | |||||
| +WK Lees | not out | 53 | |||||
| *GD Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| GA Powell | did not bat | ||||||
| KA Nicholson | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| B Andrews | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 6 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 36.7 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-33, 3-75, 4-102 | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Jordan | 6.7 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 55.00 | 4.80 |
| Stewart | 8 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| O'Sullivan | 8 | 1 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.62 |
| Cairns | 8 | 1 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 5.38 |
| Howell | 6 | 0 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 6.67 |