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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 20th, 22nd March 1897 (2-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Wellington won by an innings and 6 runs | 
| Umpires | A Ashbolt, H Martin | 
| Close of play day 1 | Wellington (1) 222/9 (Holdsworth 0*, Hales 2*) | 
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Staite | run out | 11 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | c Levers b Holdsworth | 16 | |||||
| RW Bruce | c Levers b Holdsworth | 0 | |||||
| AH Gore | c Hales b Holdsworth | 15 | |||||
| +D Canning | b Holdship | 21 | |||||
| CH Cato | c Levers b Holdsworth | 2 | |||||
| HC Wilson | c Hales b Holdsworth | 3 | |||||
| CE Johnston | c Laws b Holdship | 4 | |||||
| TW Lewis | c Levers b Holdsworth | 7 | |||||
| HA Fannin | st Levers b Holdship | 7 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 1 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 29.2 overs) | 95 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26 (Lusk), 2-26 (Bruce), 3-37 (Staite), 4-71 (Canning), 5-71 (Gore), 6-75 (Wilson), 7-80 (Cato), 8-80 (Johnston), 9-89 (Fannin), 10-95 (Lewis, 29.2 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hales | 8 | 1 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Holdsworth | 14.2 | 1 | 47 | 6 | - | - | |
| Holdship | 7 | 1 | 17 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Weyburne | c and b Wilson | 41 | |||||
| FW Lash | b Fannin | 9 | |||||
| *AR Holdship | c Gore b Hughes | 10 | |||||
| FA Laws | run out | 3 | |||||
| G Webb | c Fannin b Hughes | 1 | |||||
| WRS Hickson | b Fannin | 0 | |||||
| VH Waters | c Cato b Gore | 86 | |||||
| +WCS Levers | c Fannin b Gore | 1 | |||||
| KH Tucker | c and b Wilson | 64 | |||||
| F Holdsworth | not out | 0 | |||||
| EO Hales | c Cato b Wilson | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 83.2 overs) | 222 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Lash), 2-23 (Holdship), 3-37 (Laws), 4-46 (Webb), 5-51 (Hickson), 6-75 (Weyburne), 7-80 (Levers), 8-207 (Waters), 9-215 (Tucker), 10-222 (Hales, 83.2 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 11.2 | 1 | 32 | 3 | - | - | |
| Gore | 12 | 3 | 44 | 2 | - | - | |
| Fannin | 31 | 12 | 76 | 2 | - | - | |
| Lusk | 15 | 4 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hughes | 14 | 4 | 27 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hawke's Bay second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Staite | b Hales | 15 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | c Hickson b Holdsworth | 30 | |||||
| RW Bruce | c Weyburne b Holdsworth | 4 | |||||
| AH Gore | c Tucker b Holdsworth | 1 | |||||
| +D Canning | c Holdship b Hales | 1 | |||||
| CH Cato | not out | 38 | |||||
| HC Wilson | b Holdsworth | 6 | |||||
| TW Lewis | c and b Hales | 4 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | c Levers b Holdsworth | 7 | |||||
| CE Johnston | b Holdsworth | 5 | |||||
| HA Fannin | c Waters b Hales | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 56 overs) | 121 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34 (Staite), 2-? (Bruce), 3-? (Gore), 4-? (Lusk), 5-? (Canning), 6-? (Wilson), 7-? (Lewis), 8-? (Hughes), 9-? (Johnston), 10-121 (Fannin, 56 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hales | 18 | 10 | 28 | 4 | - | - | |
| Holdsworth | 20 | 7 | 35 | 6 | - | - | |
| Holdship | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Laws | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tucker | 8 | 1 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |