misc603827	Southland v Central Otago
	Other matches in New Zealand 1976/77
Venue	Queen's Park, Invercargill on 26th, 27th March 1977 (2-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	Southland won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Close of play day 1

Southland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+NR Thompson	c and b Petherick	24
GJ Dawson	c McRae b McHutchon	55		152	5	-
RJ Verrall	lbw b Petherick	2
N McArthur	c and b Berry	10
*BJ McKechnie	c Buttar b Petherick	31
IH Donaldson	b Anderson	18
RJ Hill	c Buttar b Anderson	21
JK Lindsay	not out	23
KA Nicholson	did not bat
GB Thomson	did not bat
C Hampton	did not bat
Extras		12
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 64 overs)	196
Fall of wickets:
1-51 (Thompson), 2-62 (Verrall), 3-93 (McArthur), 4-106 (Dawson), 5-138, 6-162, 7-196 (64 ov)

Central Otago first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
CW Buttar	lbw b Thomson	0
TD Sutherland	c McKechnie b Hampton	35
J Barrie	lbw b Lindsay	39		97	5	-
BK McSkimming	c and b Hampton	0
SH McSkimming	c Verrall b Hampton	1
LE Anderson	c McArthur b Lindsay	28
DM McCall	not out	28
+J McRae	run out	8
AJ McHutchon	not out	14
*PJ Petherick	did not bat
WR Berry	did not bat
Extras		9
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 53 overs)	162
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Buttar), 2-67 (Barrie), 3-70 (BK McSkimming), 4-72 (SH McSkimming), 5-91, 6-121, 7-147

Central Otago second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
CW Buttar	c Thompson b Thomson	8
TD Sutherland	c and b Nicholson	4
J Barrie	c Lindsay b Thomson	8
BK McSkimming	c Lindsay b Thomson	2
SH McSkimming	c Thompson b Thomson	0
LE Anderson	c Verrall b Nicholson	3
DM McCall	not out	0
+J McRae	c Donaldson b Lindsay	0
*PJ Petherick	not out	0
AJ McHutchon	did not bat
WR Berry	did not bat
Extras		5
Total	(7 wickets, 18 overs)	30
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-21, 3-22, 4-24, 5-29, 6-29, 7-30

Bad light caused play to end an hour before the scheduled stumps time on the second day denying Southland a likely outright victory