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| Venue | Bayly Park, Hawera on 17th, 18th March 1897 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 5 |
| Toss | Taranaki won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Taranaki won by an innings and 42 runs |
| Umpires | R Foster (Hawke's Bay), F Riddiford (Taranaki) |
| Scorer | S Dixon |
| Close of play day 1 | Hawke's Bay (1) 104 all out |
| Taranaki first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WJ Crawshaw | b Hughes | 106 | 9 | - | |||
| EB Izard | c JH Martin b Hughes | 2 | |||||
| FE Moore | run out | 19 | |||||
| PM Pratt | c Lewis b Hughes | 85 | 13 | - | |||
| G Syme | b Fannin | 0 | |||||
| B McCarthy | b Fannin | 0 | |||||
| GA Grindrod | c Lewis b Hughes | 0 | |||||
| *GT Bayly | b Fannin | 0 | |||||
| A Bayly | b Fannin | 0 | |||||
| HS Elliott | not out | 3 | |||||
| EC Cole | b Fannin | 20 | 4 | - | |||
| Extras | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 83 overs) | 246 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Izard), 2-80 (Moore), 3-194 (Crawshaw), 4-? (Syme), 5-? (McCarthy), 6-? (Grindrod), 7-? (GT Bayly), 8-? (A Bayly), 9-? (Pratt), 10-246 (Cole, 83 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fannin | 34 | 11 | 80 | 5 | - | - | |
| Hughes | 31 | 5 | 102 | 4 | - | - | |
| Lusk | 12 | 2 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Johnston | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Staite | b Cole | 2 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | b McCarthy | 52 | 5 | - | |||
| +D Canning | b McCarthy | 2 | |||||
| CE Johnston | c Crawshaw b Cole | 4 | |||||
| TW Lewis | b Cole | 2 | |||||
| CH Cato | b GT Bayly | 1 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | b McCarthy | 5 | |||||
| WH Young | b GT Bayly | 0 | |||||
| JH Martin | c and b Cole | 11 | |||||
| HA Fannin | b GT Bayly | 9 | |||||
| A Martin | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 16 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 43 overs) | 104 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Staite), 2-? (Canning), 3-? (Johnston), 4-? (Lewis), 5-? (Cato), 6-76 (Lusk), 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-104 (43 ov) | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cole | 16 | 5 | 27 | 4 | - | - | |
| McCarthy | 20 | 5 | 42 | 3 | - | - | |
| GT Bayly | 7 | 1 | 19 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| Hawke's Bay second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Staite | b McCarthy | 12 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | b GT Bayly | 15 | |||||
| CH Cato | c Grindrod b Elliott | 21 | |||||
| TW Lewis | b McCarthy | 3 | |||||
| CE Johnston | c GT Bayly b McCarthy | 4 | |||||
| +D Canning | b McCarthy | 16 | |||||
| JH Martin | b Cole | 1 | |||||
| HA Fannin | b Cole | 9 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | not out | 6 | |||||
| WH Young | b Elliott | 3 | |||||
| A Martin | b Elliott | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 52.2 overs) | 100 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Lusk), 2-30 (Staite), 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-100 (52.2 ov) | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McCarthy | 22 | 7 | 46 | 4 | - | - | |
| Cole | 14 | 5 | 21 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| GT Bayly | 12 | 6 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Elliott | 4.2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | - | - | |