| a5521 | |
| Venue | Molyneux Park, Alexandra on 3rd January 1988 (50-over match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | Northern Districts won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Otago won by 2 wickets | 
| Points | Otago 2; Northern Districts 0 | 
| Umpires | D Cummings, GC Morris | 
| Northern Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LM Crocker | c Mallender b Wilson | 28 | 56 | 61 | 4 | - | 50.00 | 
| GE Bradburn | c Walker b Wilson | 29 | 58 | 77 | 3 | - | 50.00 | 
| GA Hick | b Boock | 18 | 26 | 32 | 2 | - | 69.23 | 
| CM Kuggeleijn | c Wilson b Walker | 7 | 18 | 21 | - | - | 38.89 | 
| *BL Cairns | c McCullum b Walker | 7 | 19 | 17 | - | - | 36.84 | 
| +BA Young | lbw b Walker | 31 | 40 | 53 | 2 | - | 77.50 | 
| BG Cooper | b Hills | 13 | 25 | 33 | - | - | 52.00 | 
| DJ White | b Mallender | 10 | 22 | 31 | - | - | 45.45 | 
| DA Beard | run out | 22 | 23 | 36 | 1 | - | 95.65 | 
| K Treiber | run out | 9 | 11 | 16 | - | - | 81.82 | 
| BP Ward | not out | 0 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-50, 2-69, 3-85, 4-85, 5-92, 6-135, 7-141, 8-164, 9-179, 10-183 (49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Mallender | 10 | 2 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.40 | 
| Hills | 9.2 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 56.00 | 3.64 | 
| Blair | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 | 
| Wilson | 7 | 1 | 23 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 3.29 | 
| Boock | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 | 
| Walker | 8 | 1 | 32 | 3 | - | - | 16.00 | 4.00 | 
| Otago innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KJ Burns | b Kuggeleijn | 2 | 18 | 14 | - | - | 11.11 | 
| SJ McCullum | c Young b Hick | 4 | 31 | 31 | - | - | 12.90 | 
| PW Hills | run out | 24 | 31 | 47 | 1 | - | 77.42 | 
| RN Hoskin | c Hick b Treiber | 4 | 12 | 11 | - | - | 33.33 | 
| BR Blair | run out | 6 | 17 | 33 | - | - | 35.29 | 
| KBK Ibadulla | c Bradburn b Hick | 4 | 14 | 7 | 1 | - | 28.57 | 
| DJ Walker | b Cairns | 38 | 60 | 106 | - | - | 63.33 | 
| *+WK Lees | lbw b Cairns | 35 | 65 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 53.85 | 
| NA Mallender | not out | 30 | 47 | 52 | 4 | - | 63.83 | 
| TJ Wilson | not out | 6 | 5 | 11 | 1 | - | 120.00 | 
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 19 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 32 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 49.5 overs) | 185 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-18, 3-29, 4-54, 5-62, 6-66, 7-121, 8-172 | |||||||
| Northern Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Kuggeleijn | 10 | 3 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.40 | 
| Beard | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.40 | 
| Hick | 9.5 | 3 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 29.50 | 3.56 | 
| Treiber | 8 | 2 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.25 | 
| Cairns | 10 | 1 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.50 | 
| Bradburn | 7 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.57 |