| a2857 | |
| Venue | Dudley Park, Rangiora on 6th January 1981 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Central Districts won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Canterbury won by 10 runs |
| Points | Canterbury 4; Central Districts 0 |
| Umpires | FR Goodall, IC Higginson |
| Player of the Match | RT Latham |
| Canterbury innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DA Dempsey | lbw b Robertson | 19 | |||||
| PJ Rattray | c McSweeney b Gill | 0 | |||||
| VR Brown | c Langridge b Aberhart | 46 | |||||
| *CL Bull | c Robertson b Gill | 1 | |||||
| DW Stead | run out | 28 | |||||
| RT Latham | c McSweeney b Robertson | 83 | |||||
| BD Ritchie | c Langridge b O'Sullivan | 14 | |||||
| +RI Leggat | lbw b Gill | 16 | |||||
| SR McNally | b Robertson | 5 | |||||
| CH Thiele | lbw b Gill | 0 | |||||
| GC Bateman | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 3 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.1 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-32, 3-33, 4-91, 5-106, 6-163, 7-205, 8-215, 9-219, 10-228 (49.1 ov) | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gill | 10 | 3 | 42 | 4 | - | - | 15.00 | 4.20 |
| Robertson | 9.1 | 1 | 48 | 3 | - | - | 18.33 | 5.24 |
| Aberhart | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.60 |
| O'Sullivan | 10 | 0 | 62 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 6.20 |
| Jamieson | 10 | 3 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Central Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MH Toynbee | c Bull b McNally | 24 | |||||
| AH Jones | lbw b Thiele | 8 | |||||
| GN Edwards | b Dempsey | 47 | |||||
| GJ Langridge | run out | 78 | |||||
| WG Hodgson | lbw b Dempsey | 26 | |||||
| +EB McSweeney | c Ritchie b Bateman | 16 | |||||
| DC Aberhart | run out | 1 | |||||
| GK Robertson | c Dempsey b McNally | 3 | |||||
| *DR O'Sullivan | b Thiele | 4 | |||||
| MF Gill | not out | 1 | |||||
| MD Jamieson | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 218 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-33, 2-33, 3-128, 4-180, 5-191, 6-210, 7-211, 8-217, 9-217, 10-218 (49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bateman | 10 | 1 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Thiele | 9.2 | 1 | 29 | 2 | - | - | 28.00 | 3.11 |
| McNally | 7 | 1 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 5.14 |
| Latham | 6 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.83 |
| Stead | 7 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.43 |
| Dempsey | 10 | 1 | 32 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.20 |