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| Venue | Eden Park No 2, Auckland on 3rd, 4th, 5th January 1979 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Auckland won by 68 runs |
| Points | Auckland 17 (Batting 4, Bowling 1); Otago 5 (Batting 2, Bowling 3) |
| Umpires | JW Corner, WRC Gardiner |
| Close of play day 1 | Otago (1) 76/2 (Facoory 2*, WL Blair 21*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Auckland (2) 137/3 (Kasper 16*, Webb 12*) |
| Player of the Match | PN Webb |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PN Webb | lbw b Bracewell | 103 | |||||
| AEW Parsons | run out | 0 | |||||
| +JF Reid | b Hills | 2 | |||||
| MG Burgess | c Lees b Boock | 75 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | lbw b Boock | 23 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | c Facoory b Bracewell | 22 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | not out | 2 | |||||
| HJ Howarth | c WL Blair b Bracewell | 2 | |||||
| LW Stott | not out | 12 | |||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 4 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 64.6 overs) | 254 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-5, 3-148, 4-188, 5-232, 6-237, 7-241 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cairns | 23 | 4 | 72 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hills | 14 | 2 | 66 | 1 | - | - | |
| Boock | 21.6 | 5 | 73 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 6 | 1 | 30 | 3 | - | - | |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | c +Webb b Cushen | 15 | |||||
| SJ McCullum | c Howarth b Stott | 28 | |||||
| PR Facoory | lbw b McIntyre | 7 | |||||
| WL Blair | b Stott | 99 | |||||
| BR Blair | c Vivian b Kasper | 39 | |||||
| KO Campbell | not out | 31 | |||||
| BL Cairns | not out | 5 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Hills | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (15 b, 7 lb, 2 nb) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 85 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-50, 3-92, 4-173, 5-243 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 4 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 32 | 12 | 66 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stott | 21 | 4 | 69 | 2 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 14 | 5 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vivian | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kasper | 5 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +JF Reid | lbw b Boock | 38 | |||||
| AEW Parsons | run out | 49 | |||||
| PN Webb | c WL Blair b Bracewell | 20 | |||||
| MG Burgess | c Lees b Hills | 12 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | c Rutherford b Boock | 30 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | st Lees b Boock | 0 | |||||
| HJ Howarth | b Bracewell | 1 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | c BR Blair b Boock | 6 | |||||
| LW Stott | lbw b Boock | 1 | |||||
| GB Troup | not out | 5 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | lbw b Bracewell | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 4 lb, 5 nb, 1 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 75.5 overs) | 180 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-88, 2-91, 3-111, 4-160, 5-164, 6-165, 7-172, 8-175, 9-180, 10-180 (75.5 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cairns | 21 | 9 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hills | 26 | 6 | 73 | 1 | - | - | |
| Boock | 25 | 13 | 46 | 5 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 3.5 | 1 | 9 | 3 | - | - | |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | b Cushen | 6 | |||||
| SJ McCullum | lbw b Troup | 12 | |||||
| PR Facoory | b Cushen | 4 | |||||
| WL Blair | c Howarth b McIntyre | 14 | |||||
| BR Blair | lbw b McIntyre | 28 | |||||
| KO Campbell | st +Webb b McIntyre | 20 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | b McIntyre | 7 | |||||
| BL Cairns | lbw b McIntyre | 6 | |||||
| JG Bracewell | c +Webb b Stott | 4 | |||||
| PW Hills | c and b Howarth | 9 | |||||
| SL Boock | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 54.3 overs) | 118 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-21, 3-25, 4-62, 5-87, 6-94, 7-99, 8-108, 9-118, 10-118 (54.3 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 13 | 4 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 14 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 17 | 4 | 44 | 5 | - | - | |
| Stott | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |