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| Venue | Victoria Square, Westport on 21st, 22nd February 1976 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | North Canterbury won by an innings and 68 runs |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Buller first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *A Ireland | b McNally | 2 | 13 | - | - | ||
| RM Atkin | b Merrin | 4 | 60 | - | - | ||
| AK Dellaca | lbw b Merrin | 2 | 50 | - | - | ||
| N Little | c Devlin b Merrin | 26 | 3 | - | |||
| SH Baird | b McNally | 43 | 6 | - | |||
| CR Aldridge | b Merrin | 8 | 1 | - | |||
| GC Dalkie | lbw b McNally | 5 | - | - | |||
| WB Townrow | c and b Merrin | 12 | 2 | - | |||
| RN Parker | c Johnston b McNally | 2 | - | - | |||
| +RL Golding | b McNally | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| R Knight | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 45.6 overs) | 111 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Ireland), 2-13 (Atkin), 3-14 (Dellaca), 4-76 (Little), 5-86 (Aldridge), 6-96 (Dalkie), 7-97 (Baird), 8-109 (Parker), 9-109 (Golding), 10-111 (Townrow, 45.6 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McNally | 13 | 6 | 24 | 5 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 18.6 | 3 | 44 | 5 | - | - | |
| Thiele | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Newton | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sowden | 7 | 3 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PR Williams | not out | 114 | 280 | 9 | 1 | ||
| AJ Jenkins | c Dellaca b Townrow | 17 | - | - | |||
| MT Johnston | b Ireland | 0 | 6 | 5 | - | - | |
| RJ Kerr | c Ireland b Parker | 33 | 3 | - | |||
| RJ Sowden | b Aldridge | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| RC Merrin | st Golding b Parker | 64 | 107 | 6 | 2 | ||
| +PC Devlin | not out | 17 | 1 | - | |||
| *SJ Ryan | did not bat | ||||||
| WH Newton | did not bat | ||||||
| SR McNally | did not bat | ||||||
| CH Thiele | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 280 minutes, 64 overs) | 250 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-33 (Jenkins), 2-36 (Johnston), 3-108 (Kerr), 4-108 (Sowden), 5-219 (Merrin) | |||||||
| Buller bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Townrow | 17 | 3 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ireland | 22 | 6 | 54 | 1 | - | - | |
| Parker | 13 | 1 | 55 | 2 | - | - | |
| Knight | 6 | 0 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Aldridge | 5 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dalkie | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Buller second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RM Atkin | b Newton | 25 | 2 | - | |||
| SH Baird | c Devlin b Merrin | 0 | 4 | 7 | - | - | |
| AK Dellaca | b McNally | 0 | 11 | 8 | - | - | |
| N Little | c Jenkins b Newton | 15 | 1 | - | |||
| CR Aldridge | c and b Newton | 9 | 1 | - | |||
| *A Ireland | c Merrin b Newton | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| GC Dalkie | not out | 7 | - | - | |||
| WB Townrow | b Thiele | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| RN Parker | c Williams b Thiele | 2 | - | - | |||
| +RL Golding | b Newton | 2 | - | - | |||
| R Knight | b Newton | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| Extras | (2 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 25.7 overs) | 71 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Baird), 2-2 (Dellaca), 3-33 (Atkin), 4-44 (Little), 5-44 (Ireland), 6-51 (Aldridge), 7-60 (Townrow), 8-64 (Parker), 9-67 (Golding), 10-71 (Knight, 25.7 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McNally | 6 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |
| Thiele | 7 | 1 | 26 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Newton | 7.7 | 3 | 21 | 6 | - | - | |