misc602928	Southland v Otago Under-23s
	Other matches in New Zealand 1966/67
Venue	Queen's Park, Invercargill on 18th, 19th February 1967 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Toss not known
Result	Match drawn
Close of play day 1	Southland (1) 243/9 (Thompson 44*, Prouting 0*; 76 overs)

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Southland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RA Holloway	c Freeman b Anderson	2
KJ O'Connor	c McKechnie b Dickel	60		84	8	3
CW Lindsay	c McKechnie b McDougall	6
LD Hollands	c Turner b Dickel	42			5	-
GD Alabaster	c Anderson b Dickel	22
RG Jefferson	run out	9
+NR Thompson	not out	44
J Barrie	c Freeman b Dickel	10
JC Alabaster	c Murdoch b McDougall	24
B Bickerstaff	c and b Anderson	14
RH Prouting	not out	0
Extras	(3 b, 3 lb, 2 nb, 2 w)	10
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 76 overs)	243
Fall of wickets:
1-2 (Holloway), 2-24 (Lindsay), 3-100 (O'Connor), 4-132, 5-137, 6-150, 7-164, 8-201, 9-241

Otago Under-23s bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Anderson	20	2	57	2	-	-
McDougall	22	4	50	2	-	-
Freeman	1	0	14	0	-	-
McKechnie	12	0	41	0	-	-
Dickel	21	3	71	4	-	-

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Otago Under-23s first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RL Murdoch	c JC Alabaster b Bickerstaff	6
AJ Bartlett	c Lindsay b Prouting	1
GM Turner	c Bickerstaff b GD Alabaster	39
BT Freeman	c JC Alabaster b Bickerstaff	15
DG Breese	c O'Connor b Bickerstaff	0
WL Blair	c Thompson b GD Alabaster	8
CRW Dickel	c Prouting b GD Alabaster	32
DEC McKechnie	b JC Alabaster	1
Khalid Ibadulla	not out	29
LE Anderson	lbw b GD Alabaster	1
R McDougall	c Thompson b Prouting	0
Extras	(7 b)	7
Total	(all out, 57 overs)	139
Fall of wickets:
1-3 (Bartlett), 2-7 (Murdoch), 3-43 (Freeman), 4-61 (Breese), 5-73, 6-73, 7-78, 8-133, 9-135, 10-139 (57 ov)

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Prouting	13	5	28	2	-	-
Bickerstaff	15	4	28	3	-	-
JC Alabaster	16	5	43	1	-	-
GD Alabaster	13	3	33	4	-	-

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Otago Under-23s second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
Khalid Ibadulla	b Prouting	0	1	1	-	-
GM Turner	not out	15
AJ Bartlett	not out	1
RL Murdoch	did not bat
BT Freeman	did not bat
DG Breese	did not bat
WL Blair	did not bat
CRW Dickel	did not bat
DEC McKechnie	did not bat
LE Anderson	did not bat
R McDougall	did not bat
Extras		0
Total	(1 wicket, 3 overs)	16
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Khalid Ibadulla, 0.1 ov)

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Prouting	2	1	15	1	-	-
GD Alabaster	1	0	1	0	-	-

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KJ O'Connor and LD Hollands added 76 for the third wicket in the Southland first innings
More than 2 hours play was lost on the first day due to rain
Rain on the second day forced the players from the field 90 minutes before the scheduled finish and no further play was possible
Khalid Ibadulla, the Otago professional coach, played for the Otago Under-23s by invitation