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| Venue | Carisbrook, Dunedin on 30th, 31st December 1977, 1st January 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Otago 5 (Bowling 5); Auckland 2 (Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | EW Dempster, AL Turner |
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 71/5 (Reid 2*, Howarth 5*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (1) 89/4 (WL Blair 37*) |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | c Lees b Thomson | 15 | |||||
| PN Webb | b Cairns | 0 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | c Campbell b Thomson | 9 | |||||
| MG Burgess | lbw b McKechnie | 33 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | c Thomson b McKechnie | 7 | |||||
| +JF Reid | b McKechnie | 4 | |||||
| HJ Howarth | c Petherick b Thomson | 13 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | b McKechnie | 0 | |||||
| LW Stott | c Lees b Thomson | 2 | |||||
| GB Troup | lbw b Thomson | 10 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 43.3 overs) | 93 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-21, 3-26, 4-64, 5-64, 6-81, 7-81, 8-81, 9-91, 10-93 (43.3 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Thomson | 16.3 | 6 | 31 | 5 | - | - |
| Cairns | 13 | 4 | 38 | 1 | - | - |
| McKechnie | 14 | 3 | 24 | 4 | - | - |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Blair | not out | 37 | |||||
| SJ McCullum | b Troup | 29 | |||||
| KO Campbell | b Troup | 5 | |||||
| BL Cairns | lbw b Stott | 0 | |||||
| PR Facoory | b McIntyre | 3 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | not out | 7 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Petherick | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| BR Blair | did not bat | ||||||
| CM Kirk | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 36.1 overs) | 93 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-58, 2-74, 3-75, 4-83 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Troup | 12.1 | 4 | 35 | 2 | - | - |
| Stott | 14 | 5 | 17 | 1 | - | - |
| Cushen | 6 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - |
| McIntyre | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Howarth | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | not out | 12 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | not out | 0 | |||||
| PN Webb | did not bat | ||||||
| MG Burgess | did not bat | ||||||
| *GE Vivian | did not bat | ||||||
| +JF Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| LW Stott | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 4.2 overs) | 12 | |||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Thomson | 2.2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - |
| Cairns | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - |