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| Venue | Temuka Oval, Temuka on 4th, 5th January 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | South Canterbury won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | J Bull, N McIntosh |
| Close of play day 1 | Southland (1) 77/3 (Ryan 10*, McArthur 13*; 42 overs) |
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DR Murdoch | b Davidson | 30 | 3 | 1 | |||
| TL Ward | run out (Bishop) | 19 | |||||
| J Ryan | c Gloag b Durning | 30 | |||||
| TJ Masefield | lbw b Ritchie | 0 | - | - | |||
| N McArthur | c Gloag b MacFadyen | 13 | |||||
| *DS Cocks | st Gloag b Ritchie | 17 | |||||
| +BJG Crawford | c Austin b Ritchie | 10 | |||||
| E Soper | not out | 12 | |||||
| JS Stevenson | c Davidson b Durning | 6 | |||||
| C Hampton | c Gloag b Durning | 1 | - | - | |||
| P Young | c Laming b Durning | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 71.6 overs) | 147 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-51 (Ward), 2-54 (Murdoch), 3-55 (Masefield), 4-77 (McArthur), 5-114 (Cocks), 6-115 (Ryan), 7-125 (Crawford), 8-145 (Stevenson), 9-147 (Hampton), 10-147 (Young, 71.6 ov) | |||||||
| South Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacFadyen | 14 | 4 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Austin | 8 | 3 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ritchie | 24 | 9 | 49 | 3 | - | - | |
| Davidson | 16 | 6 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Andrews | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Durning | 7.6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | - | - | |
| Laming | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BJ Mackle | c Young b Cocks | 27 | |||||
| BW Andrews | c Soper b Stevenson | 11 | |||||
| *DJ Bishop | b Stevenson | 11 | |||||
| NE Veitch | lbw b Hampton | 47 | 4 | - | |||
| MJ Laming | lbw b Cocks | 7 | |||||
| JW Durning | b Stevenson | 0 | - | - | |||
| G Austin | c Cocks b Hampton | 15 | |||||
| EGC Ritchie | not out | 20 | 4 | - | |||
| +AJ Gloag | not out | 1 | - | - | |||
| IS MacFadyen | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Davidson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 61 overs) | 149 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Andrews), 2-39 (Bishop), 3-79 (Mackle), 4-88 (Laming), 5-89 (Durning), 6-124 (Austin), 7-143 (Veitch) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Soper | 11 | 4 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Young | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stevenson | 21 | 6 | 52 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hampton | 10 | 3 | 24 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cocks | 12 | 0 | 39 | 2 | - | - | |