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| Venue | Opunake High School Ground, Opunake on 28th, 29th January 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | LF Cadman, RA Muggeridge |
| Close of play day 1 | Taranaki (1) 70/1 (Ormiston ?*, Perrett ?*) |
| Southern Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KC Martin | c [unknown] b Cooper | 11 | |||||
| *G Brown | b AB Jordan | 10 | |||||
| AE Sail | lbw b West | 26 | |||||
| D McLeod | c LE Jordan b Ormiston | 18 | |||||
| JB Ellingham | c West b Eliason | 36 | 3 | - | |||
| J Manson | c Ormiston b AB Jordan | 40 | 3 | - | |||
| AM Brown | c Perrett b AB Jordan | 48 | 6 | - | |||
| GE Freeman | run out | 4 | |||||
| AWA Ormond | not out | 6 | |||||
| CP Ellmers | c and b Eliason | 8 | |||||
| BT Hales | c AB Jordan b Eliason | 4 | |||||
| Extras | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 60 overs) | 229 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25, 2-31, 3-75, 4-75, 5-127, 6-207, 7-207, 8-220, 9-225, 10-229 (60 ov) | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| AB Jordan | 16 | 4 | 43 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cooper | 13 | 2 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| West | 10 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ormiston | 9 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 6 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Green | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Eliason | 3 | 0 | 19 | 3 | - | - | |
| Taranaki first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JF Goodin | lbw b Ellmers | 5 | |||||
| RW Ormiston | lbw b Ormond | 70 | 4 | - | |||
| ED Perrett | c Hales b Ormond | 110 | 14 | - | |||
| LE Jordan | c Ellingham b Freeman | 54 | 8 | - | |||
| *DI Green | run out | 18 | |||||
| DJ Radford | c Martin b Ormond | 24 | |||||
| RL West | lbw b Freeman | 18 | |||||
| PR Stewart | not out | 16 | |||||
| AB Jordan | b Freeman | 8 | |||||
| PJ Eliason | did not bat | ||||||
| A Cooper | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 17 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 66 overs) | 339 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Goodin), 2-189, 3-196, 4-257, 5-288, 6-294, 7-331, 8-339 (66 ov) | |||||||
| Southern Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ellmers | 11 | 0 | 61 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ormond | 24 | 1 | 94 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hales | 11 | 1 | 64 | 0 | - | - | |
| AM Brown | 5 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| G Brown | 8 | 1 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sail | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Freeman | 6 | 0 | 34 | 3 | - | - | |
| Southern Hawke's Bay second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KC Martin | b AB Jordan | 4 | |||||
| *G Brown | c LE Jordan b Stewart | 4 | |||||
| AE Sail | lbw b Stewart | 3 | |||||
| D McLeod | c Radford b Stewart | 13 | |||||
| JB Ellingham | not out | 24 | |||||
| J Manson | lbw b Stewart | 10 | |||||
| GE Freeman | not out | 21 | |||||
| AM Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| AWA Ormond | did not bat | ||||||
| CP Ellmers | did not bat | ||||||
| BT Hales | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 34 overs) | 81 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-12, 3-17, 4-28, 5-47 | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| AB Jordan | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 13 | 5 | 18 | 4 | - | - | |
| Cooper | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| West | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ormiston | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Green | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Eliason | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |