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| Venue | Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North on 3rd, 4th December 1977 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Taranaki won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Manawatu won on first innings) |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Taranaki first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ED Perrett | lbw b Kay | 32 | 4 | - | |||
| LE Jordan | c Downes b Parkinson | 1 | - | - | |||
| +PM Blackbourn | c Downes b Stewart | 18 | |||||
| *DI Green | c Downes b Kay | 7 | |||||
| RL West | c Langridge b Kay | 0 | - | - | |||
| JW Burtt | c Downes b Parkinson | 16 | |||||
| BC Richards | c Verhoek b Stewart | 63 | 9 | - | |||
| IR Latham | b Brown | 6 | |||||
| PR Stewart | not out | 67 | 9 | - | |||
| AB Jordan | c Stewart b Duncan | 55 | 10 | - | |||
| BA Phillips | c Langridge b Brown | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 64 overs) | 280 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (LE Jordan), 2-32 (Blackbourn), 3-50 (Green), 4-56 (West), 5-66 (Perrett), 6-110 (Burtt), 7-132 (Latham), 8-170 (Richards), 9-270 (AB Jordan), 10-280 (Phillips, 64 ov) | |||||||
| Manawatu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kay | 17 | 2 | 42 | 3 | - | - | |
| Parkinson | 9 | 0 | 48 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 11 | 1 | 50 | 2 | - | - | |
| Duncan | 8 | 1 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brown | 15 | 2 | 55 | 2 | - | - | |
| Anderson | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Verhoek | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Manawatu first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | c Blackbourn b Burtt | 204 | 24 | 1 | |||
| PJ Verhoek | c and b Stewart | 12 | |||||
| GJ Langridge | c Blackbourn b Phillips | 30 | 4 | - | |||
| MJ Hawke | lbw b AB Jordan | 12 | |||||
| GHR Duncan | run out | 16 | |||||
| +LW Downes | b Green | 47 | 7 | - | |||
| RG Hewer | b Phillips | 7 | |||||
| MT Brown | lbw b Richards | 1 | - | - | |||
| BN Stewart | b Green | 26 | 5 | - | |||
| DJ Kay | not out | 13 | |||||
| NI Parkinson | b West | 1 | - | - | |||
| Extras | 32 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 86.6 overs) | 401 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-79 (Verhoek), 2-196 (Langridge), 3-235 (Hawke), 4-262 (Duncan), 5-314 (Anderson), 6-341 (Hewer), 7-342 (Brown), 8-381, 9-390, 10-401 (86.6 ov) | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| AB Jordan | 20 | 3 | 80 | 1 | - | - | |
| Phillips | 17 | 2 | 89 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 16 | 3 | 49 | 1 | - | - | |
| Green | 12 | 2 | 67 | 2 | - | - | |
| West | 11.6 | 2 | 50 | 1 | - | - | |
| Burtt | 7 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Richards | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |