| a4696 | |
| Venue | Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 29th December 1985 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Canterbury won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Canterbury won by 8 wickets |
| Points | Canterbury 2; Northern Districts 0 |
| Umpires | BL Aldridge, FR Goodall |
| Northern Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LM Crocker | c Hart b Stead | 26 | 61 | 65 | 3 | - | 42.62 |
| REW Mawhinney | st Hart b Brown | 16 | 64 | 75 | 1 | - | 25.00 |
| BR Blair | run out | 52 | 70 | 91 | 4 | - | 74.29 |
| BG Cooper | c Nathu b Latham | 23 | 51 | 61 | 2 | - | 45.10 |
| BL Cairns | st Hart b McEwan | 1 | 6 | 14 | - | - | 16.67 |
| *GP Howarth | not out | 34 | 30 | 39 | 3 | - | 113.33 |
| CM Kuggeleijn | c Brown b Tracy | 14 | 16 | 26 | 1 | - | 87.50 |
| MJ Child | not out | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 100.00 |
| +BA Young | did not bat | ||||||
| SM Carrington | did not bat | ||||||
| K Treiber | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 174 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-45, 2-45, 3-115, 4-124, 5-126, 6-164 | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tracy | 8 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.50 |
| Hadlee | 10 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.10 |
| Brown | 10 | 2 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.50 |
| Stead | 10 | 2 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 1.50 |
| McNally | 5 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Latham | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.50 |
| McEwan | 5 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.80 |
| Canterbury innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JG Wright | c and b Blair | 77 | 106 | 133 | 10 | - | 72.64 |
| A Nathu | b Child | 28 | 46 | 58 | 4 | - | 60.87 |
| PE McEwan | not out | 59 | 70 | 90 | 9 | 1 | 84.29 |
| PG Kennedy | not out | 1 | 16 | 14 | - | - | 6.25 |
| VR Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| RT Latham | did not bat | ||||||
| DW Stead | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| SR McNally | did not bat | ||||||
| +AW Hart | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Tracy | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 3 nb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 38.1 overs) | 176 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-75, 2-167 | |||||||
| Northern Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Treiber | 7 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.86 |
| Cairns | 8 | 1 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.88 |
| Child | 8 | 0 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.00 |
| Carrington | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.88 |
| Kuggeleijn | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 |
| Blair | 3.1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | - | 19.00 | 4.42 |