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| Venue | Victoria Square, Westport on 3rd, 4th January 1974 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | North Canterbury won by an innings and 60 runs |
| Umpires | AJH Henderson, WF Ireland |
| Close of play day 1 | North Canterbury (1) 174/7 (Newton 2*) |
| Buller first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BW McGuire | c [unknown] b Dampier-Crossley | 15 | 37 | - | - | ||
| AJ Ireland | b Dampier-Crossley | 2 | 15 | - | - | ||
| KP Scanlon | b James | 10 | 58 | - | - | ||
| T Cockfield | b Dampier-Crossley | 1 | - | - | |||
| M Farrar | b Dampier-Crossley | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| *CR Aldridge | c sub (PR Rutherford) b James | 2 | 10 | - | - | ||
| RN Parker | c Ormandy b Merrin | 27 | 2 | - | |||
| WB Townrow | b James | 1 | - | - | |||
| +N Evans | b James | 7 | 1 | - | |||
| J Bonner | c Turner b Newton | 7 | 1 | - | |||
| PR Bonisch | not out | 10 | 1 | - | |||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 183 minutes, 37.7 overs) | 101 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Ireland), 2-22 (McGuire), 3-26 (Cockfield), 4-28 (Scanlon), 5-31 (Aldridge), 6-40 (Farrar), 7-41 (Townrow), 8-59 (Evans), 9-69 (Bonner), 10-101 (Parker, 37.7 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dampier-Crossley | 13 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Merrin | 6.7 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| James | 12 | 3 | 23 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Newton | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PC Devlin | c Cockfield b Ireland | 4 | 32 | - | - | ||
| *SJ Blakely | run out | 17 | 62 | - | - | ||
| SJ Ryan | c Ireland b Parker | 101 | 163 | 8 | 1 | ||
| TA Turner | c Cockfield b McGuire | 15 | 53 | 1 | - | ||
| TV Bailey | c Ireland b Parker | 0 | 15 | 9 | - | - | |
| RC Merrin | c Bonisch b Parker | 17 | 49 | - | - | ||
| +G Ormandy | c Bonisch b Parker | 8 | 20 | - | - | ||
| WH Newton | b Ireland | 35 | 62 | 2 | - | ||
| CJ Heslop | not out | 45 | 52 | 1 | 2 | ||
| RC James | did not bat | ||||||
| CE Dampier-Crossley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 13 lb, 1 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 64.3 overs) | 260 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Devlin), 2-37 (Blakely), 3-84 (Turner), 4-89 (Bailey), 5-130 (Merrin), 6-156 (Ormandy), 7-174 (Ryan), 8-260 (Newton, 64.3 ov) | |||||||
| Buller bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ireland | 14.3 | 1 | 56 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bonner | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Parker | 27 | 1 | 87 | 4 | - | - | |
| McGuire | 14 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Aldridge | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bonisch | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Buller second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BW McGuire | c Devlin b Heslop | 36 | 95 | 2 | - | ||
| KP Scanlon | c Ormandy b Dampier-Crossley | 0 | 7 | 3 | - | - | |
| T Cockfield | b Dampier-Crossley | 5 | 14 | - | - | ||
| AJ Ireland | b Merrin | 5 | 8 | - | - | ||
| RN Parker | c Turner b Dampier-Crossley | 0 | 9 | - | - | ||
| *CR Aldridge | c Ormandy b Heslop | 35 | 83 | 4 | - | ||
| M Farrar | b Newton | 4 | 29 | - | - | ||
| WB Townrow | lbw b Heslop | 1 | 19 | - | - | ||
| PR Bonisch | c sub (PR Rutherford) b Newton | 0 | 7 | 5 | - | - | |
| +N Evans | not out | 2 | 11 | - | - | ||
| J Bonner | c Ormandy b Heslop | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (8 b, 2 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 142 minutes, 33 overs) | 99 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Scanlon), 2-14 (Cockfield), 3-19 (Ireland), 4-20 (Parker), 5-73 (McGuire), 6-90 (Aldridge), 7-93 (Farrar), 8-94 (Bonisch), 9-97 (Townrow), 10-99 (Bonner, 33 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dampier-Crossley | 7 | 0 | 19 | 3 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| James | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Newton | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | - | - | |
| Heslop | 10 | 2 | 27 | 4 | - | - | |
| Bailey | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |