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| Venue | Recreation Ground, Greymouth on 29th, 30th January 1972 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | North Canterbury won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | [unknown], TDP Pasfield |
| Close of play day 1 | North Canterbury (1) 220/5 (Devlin 74*, Merrin 71*) |
| West Coast (South Island) first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GR McAulay | c and b Merrin | 6 | 31 | 1 | - | ||
| KW Smythe | b Beecroft | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | |
| DJ Topp | lbw b Beecroft | 2 | 11 | - | - | ||
| CAN McMillan | c Devlin b Merrin | 2 | 37 | - | - | ||
| M Copeland | c Keenan b Beecroft | 11 | 19 | 1 | - | ||
| AJ Schafer | c Blakely b James | 26 | 73 | 3 | - | ||
| *+R Richardson | b James | 2 | 23 | - | - | ||
| WA Kennedy | lbw b Merrin | 7 | 48 | - | - | ||
| MD Keenan | b Newton | 11 | 37 | 2 | - | ||
| EB Tones | run out | 3 | 3 | - | - | ||
| P Thomas | not out | 3 | 25 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (17 b) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 38.7 overs) | 90 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Smythe, 1.3 ov), 2-6 (Topp), 3-12 (McAulay), 4-33 (Copeland), 5-33 (McMillan), 6-42 (Richardson), 7-73 (Kennedy), 8-73 (Schafer), 9-76 (Tones), 10-90 (Keenan, 38.7 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Merrin | 15 | 6 | 26 | 3 | - | - | |
| Beecroft | 8 | 4 | 13 | 3 | - | - | |
| Newton | 4.7 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| James | 11 | 4 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SJ Blakely | c Copeland b Thomas | 13 | 21 | 2 | - | ||
| PR Williams | lbw b Tones | 17 | 29 | 2 | - | ||
| +PC Devlin | c Tones b Schafer | 83 | 148 | 5 | - | ||
| PM Keenan | st Richardson b Thomas | 1 | 11 | - | - | ||
| WH Newton | lbw b Tones | 14 | 13 | 2 | - | ||
| PW Jenkins | lbw b Kennedy | 28 | 42 | 3 | - | ||
| RC Merrin | c Richardson b Kennedy | 76 | 83 | 9 | 2 | ||
| TA Turner | not out | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | |
| LG Eder | did not bat | ||||||
| RC James | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Beecroft | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 40.3 overs) | 235 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29 (Blakely), 2-33 (Williams), 3-38 (Keenan), 4-59 (Newton), 5-118 (Jenkins), 6-228 (Merrin), 7-235 (Devlin, 40.3 ov) | |||||||
| West Coast (South Island) bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Tones | 15 | 0 | 84 | 2 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 14 | 1 | 80 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kennedy | 7 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | |
| Topp | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Schafer | 1.3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| West Coast (South Island) second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GR McAulay | c Devlin b Beecroft | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| M Copeland | b James | 11 | 37 | 1 | - | ||
| DJ Topp | c and b Merrin | 52 | 102 | 8 | - | ||
| CAN McMillan | c and b Merrin | 16 | 31 | 2 | - | ||
| AJ Schafer | c Eder b Blakely | 2 | 13 | 6 | - | - | |
| *+R Richardson | c Devlin b Merrin | 55 | 135 | 7 | - | ||
| WA Kennedy | st Devlin b Blakely | 27 | 76 | 3 | - | ||
| KW Smythe | b Blakely | 7 | 42 | 1 | - | ||
| MD Keenan | c Newton b Blakely | 8 | 13 | 2 | - | ||
| EB Tones | not out | 6 | 19 | 1 | - | ||
| P Thomas | c Eder b Blakely | 10 | 17 | 1 | - | ||
| Extras | (7 b, 9 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 60 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (McAulay, 0.3 ov), 2-35 (Copeland), 3-65 (McMillan), 4-69 (Schafer), 5-90 (Topp), 6-158 (Kennedy), 7-182 (Richardson), 8-190 (Smythe), 9-197 (Keenan), 10-212 (Thomas, 60 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Beecroft | 6 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 21 | 8 | 55 | 3 | 1 | - | |
| Newton | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| James | 7 | 2 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Blakely | 18 | 3 | 51 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Eder | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PR Williams | not out | 34 | 59 | 5 | - | ||
| LG Eder | c Copeland b Kennedy | 6 | 22 | - | - | ||
| TA Turner | c Richardson b Tones | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||
| RC James | b Tones | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||
| *SJ Blakely | c Topp b Tones | 17 | 24 | 2 | - | ||
| RC Merrin | c Keenan b Kennedy | 2 | 4 | - | - | ||
| WH Newton | not out | 3 | 2 | - | - | ||
| +PC Devlin | did not bat | ||||||
| PM Keenan | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Jenkins | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Beecroft | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 59 minutes, 14.6 overs) | 68 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Eder), 2-21 (Turner), 3-23 (James), 4-61 (Blakely), 5-64 (Merrin) | |||||||
| West Coast (South Island) bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Tones | 7.6 | 0 | 35 | 3 | - | - | |
| Kennedy | 7 | 1 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |