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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 8th, 10th, 11th July 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealanders won by an innings and 10 runs |
| Umpires | KE Palmer, TW Spencer |
| Close of play day 1 | Middlesex (1) 80/4 (Barlow 12*, Gould 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (1) 209/7 (Parker 39*, Cairns 2*) |
| Middlesex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *JM Brearley | c Boock b Hadlee | 23 | |||||
| MJ Smith | lbw b Hadlee | 19 | |||||
| CT Radley | c Edgar b Hadlee | 7 | |||||
| GD Barlow | c Edwards b Hadlee | 15 | |||||
| KP Tomlins | lbw b Cairns | 9 | |||||
| +IJ Gould | c and b Cairns | 29 | |||||
| MW Gatting | b Cairns | 0 | |||||
| NG Featherstone | c Cairns b Bracewell | 9 | |||||
| JE Emburey | not out | 6 | |||||
| MWW Selvey | c Edgar b Boock | 1 | |||||
| AA Jones | b Boock | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 9 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 54.5 overs) | 133 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44, 2-56, 3-57, 4-79, 5-96, 6-97, 7-120, 8-128, 9-129, 10-133 (54.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Hadlee | 18 | 6 | 37 | 4 | - | - |
| Bracewell | 13 | 3 | 30 | 1 | - | - |
| Cairns | 21 | 5 | 46 | 3 | - | - |
| Boock | 2.5 | 1 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | lbw b Selvey | 39 | |||||
| JG Wright | b Featherstone | 39 | |||||
| GP Howarth | c Selvey b Gatting | 25 | |||||
| BA Edgar | lbw b Gatting | 13 | |||||
| JM Parker | st Gould b Emburey | 50 | |||||
| +GN Edwards | lbw b Gatting | 6 | |||||
| RJ Hadlee | c Radley b Emburey | 11 | |||||
| *MG Burgess | b Selvey | 15 | |||||
| BL Cairns | c Tomlins b Selvey | 6 | |||||
| BP Bracewell | b Selvey | 0 | |||||
| SL Boock | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb, 12 nb, 1 w) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 84.3 overs) | 225 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-70, 2-104, 3-130, 4-131, 5-151, 6-176, 7-204, 8-223, 9-223, 10-225 (84.3 ov) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Jones | 16 | 5 | 38 | 0 | - | - |
| Selvey | 25 | 6 | 72 | 4 | - | - |
| Emburey | 22.3 | 5 | 42 | 2 | - | - |
| Featherstone | 9 | 2 | 32 | 1 | - | - |
| Gatting | 12 | 5 | 20 | 3 | - | - |
| Middlesex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Smith | c Edwards b Cairns | 33 | |||||
| CT Radley | lbw b Boock | 3 | |||||
| GD Barlow | c Edwards b Cairns | 3 | |||||
| KP Tomlins | c Edwards b Boock | 5 | |||||
| +IJ Gould | c Edwards b Cairns | 0 | |||||
| MW Gatting | b Cairns | 1 | |||||
| NG Featherstone | c Edwards b Boock | 6 | |||||
| JE Emburey | c Burgess b Boock | 0 | |||||
| MWW Selvey | not out | 1 | |||||
| AA Jones | b Boock | 7 | |||||
| *JM Brearley | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 12 nb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 27.1 overs) | 82 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37, 2-61, 3-65, 4-65, 5-65, 6-71, 7-71, 8-73, 9-82 (27.1 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Hadlee | 7 | 2 | 19 | 0 | - | - |
| Bracewell | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - |
| Cairns | 7 | 3 | 17 | 4 | - | - |
| Boock | 9.1 | 5 | 9 | 5 | - | - |