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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 1st, 2nd, 3rd January 1973 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Auckland 15 (Batting 2, Bowling 3); Otago 6 (Batting 5, Bowling 1) |
| Umpires | WRC Gardiner, RWR Shortt |
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 44/1 (Redmond 21*, Jarvis 5*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (2) 72/0 (Turner 49*, Blair 23*) |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Blair | c Vivian b Sutton | 67 | |||||
| GM Turner | b Sutton | 34 | |||||
| RW Anderson | c Harris b HJ Howarth | 21 | |||||
| BE Congdon | c Harris b HJ Howarth | 95 | |||||
| KO Campbell | c HJ Howarth b GP Howarth | 10 | |||||
| CRW Dickel | c Jarvis b HJ Howarth | 0 | |||||
| +WK Lees | c Jarvis b HJ Howarth | 6 | |||||
| *GD Alabaster | not out | 24 | |||||
| GA Powell | c Gibson b HJ Howarth | 3 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | run out | 4 | |||||
| B Andrews | b Cunis | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 lb, 5 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 71.5 overs) | 276 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-102, 2-113, 3-139, 4-168, 5-168, 6-184, 7-263, 8-268, 9-275, 10-276 (71.5 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sutton | 11 | 1 | 66 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cunis | 17.5 | 3 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Harris | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| HJ Howarth | 29 | 11 | 78 | 5 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| GP Howarth | 9 | 1 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RE Redmond | b Alabaster | 131 | |||||
| RM Harris | b Dickel | 18 | |||||
| TW Jarvis | b Alabaster | 30 | |||||
| JG Gibson | c Lees b Powell | 20 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | lbw b Dickel | 104 | |||||
| GP Howarth | run out | 19 | |||||
| RW Morgan | c Lees b Powell | 4 | |||||
| +RA Dykes | not out | 34 | |||||
| HJ Howarth | b Powell | 1 | |||||
| RS Cunis | not out | 9 | |||||
| RE Sutton | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 12 lb, 1 nb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 109.7 overs) | 387 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-35, 2-112, 3-146, 4-274, 5-324, 6-334, 7-338, 8-359 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Andrews | 17 | 1 | 69 | 0 | - | - | |
| Powell | 18.7 | 3 | 62 | 3 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 31 | 5 | 92 | 2 | - | - | |
| Dickel | 18 | 3 | 64 | 2 | - | - | |
| Congdon | 20 | 3 | 58 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Blair | c Harris b GP Howarth | 75 | |||||
| GM Turner | c HJ Howarth b Cunis | 132 | |||||
| RW Anderson | b HJ Howarth | 63 | |||||
| BE Congdon | c and b HJ Howarth | 4 | |||||
| KO Campbell | c and b HJ Howarth | 19 | |||||
| +WK Lees | st Dykes b HJ Howarth | 9 | |||||
| *GD Alabaster | c and b GP Howarth | 1 | |||||
| CRW Dickel | c Redmond b HJ Howarth | 10 | |||||
| GA Powell | st Dykes b GP Howarth | 2 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | run out | 10 | |||||
| B Andrews | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (9 b, 6 lb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 77.7 overs) | 340 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-155, 2-256, 3-269, 4-302, 5-317, 6-318, 7-318, 8-322, 9-339, 10-340 (77.7 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sutton | 11 | 1 | 55 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cunis | 18 | 2 | 69 | 1 | - | - | |
| HJ Howarth | 32.7 | 2 | 123 | 5 | - | - | |
| GP Howarth | 15 | 1 | 70 | 3 | - | - | |
| Jarvis | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TW Jarvis | run out | 79 | |||||
| RM Harris | c sub b Andrews | 44 | |||||
| RW Morgan | b Andrews | 42 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | not out | 26 | |||||
| RE Redmond | not out | 30 | |||||
| JG Gibson | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| +RA Dykes | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Cunis | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Sutton | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 29.5 overs) | 230 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-77, 2-165, 3-175 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Andrews | 15 | 1 | 123 | 2 | - | - | |
| Powell | 5.5 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 9 | 1 | 54 | 0 | - | - | |