| a3162 | |
| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 30th December 1981 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Central Districts won by 3 wickets |
| Points | Auckland 0; Central Districts 2 |
| Umpires | KJ Barron, BV Denison |
| Player of the Match | DC Aberhart |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AEW Parsons | c Smith b Robertson | 12 | |||||
| TJ Franklin | c Wiltshire b Toynbee | 42 | |||||
| *JF Reid | c Edwards b Aberhart | 53 | |||||
| MD Crowe | run out | 9 | |||||
| ATR Hellaby | run out | 16 | |||||
| WP Fowler | c Wiltshire b Aberhart | 15 | |||||
| MC Snedden | c Smith b Aberhart | 0 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | not out | 20 | |||||
| LW Stott | b Aberhart | 2 | |||||
| +NA Scott | run out | 0 | |||||
| GB Troup | run out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (11 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 185 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24, 2-90, 3-107, 4-130, 5-155, 6-155, 7-167, 8-171, 9-172, 10-185 (49.5 ov) | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Robertson | 10 | 2 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 1.90 |
| Gill | 10 | 2 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.90 |
| O'Sullivan | 10 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.90 |
| Toynbee | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Aberhart | 9.5 | 1 | 32 | 4 | - | - | 14.75 | 3.25 |
| Central Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RW Anderson | b Stott | 35 | |||||
| AH Jones | b Troup | 31 | |||||
| MH Toynbee | lbw b Hellaby | 11 | |||||
| GN Edwards | lbw b Hellaby | 3 | |||||
| JR Wiltshire | not out | 29 | |||||
| WG Hodgson | c Hellaby b Stott | 23 | |||||
| +IDS Smith | c Hellaby b Stott | 8 | |||||
| SJ Gill | c Scott b Snedden | 25 | |||||
| GK Robertson | not out | 5 | |||||
| DC Aberhart | did not bat | ||||||
| *DR O'Sullivan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 10 lb, 2 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 47.2 overs) | 188 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60, 2-80, 3-84, 4-93, 5-127, 6-143, 7-180 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Troup | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.56 |
| Snedden | 8.2 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 50.00 | 3.24 |
| Stott | 10 | 1 | 27 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 2.70 |
| McIntyre | 10 | 3 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.10 |
| Hellaby | 9 | 0 | 50 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 5.56 |
| Crowe | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |