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| Venue | Weraroa Domain, Levin on 5th, 6th February 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Manawatu won by an innings and 56 runs |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Horowhenua first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CP Jayasinha | lbw b Astle | 3 | |||||
| CK Lawton | c [unknown] b Stewart | 8 | |||||
| *RD Stewart | c [unknown] b Stewart | 23 | |||||
| GB de Castro | c [unknown] b Stewart | 6 | |||||
| W Stephenson | b Crone | 8 | |||||
| CJ Buckingham | b Astle | 26 | 4 | - | |||
| LM Sciascia | b Astle | 16 | |||||
| RJ Haslam | c [unknown] b Walker | 6 | |||||
| RW Trask | b Walker | 23 | 3 | 1 | |||
| DG Tyler | c [unknown] b Astle | 6 | |||||
| G Hobson | not out | 13 | |||||
| Extras | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 48 overs) | 142 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-26, 3-40, 4-51, 5-55, 6-89, 7-100, 8-100, 9-116, 10-142 (48 ov) | |||||||
| Manawatu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Astle | 14 | 2 | 52 | 4 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 14 | 3 | 32 | 3 | - | - | |
| Crone | 9 | 5 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| Walker | 10 | 0 | 41 | 2 | - | - | |
| Brown | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Manawatu first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Verhoek | c [unknown] b Tyler | 66 | 107 | 11 | - | ||
| GHR Duncan | c [unknown] b Jayasinha | 72 | 194 | 9 | 1 | ||
| GJ Langridge | c [unknown] b Tyler | 0 | - | - | |||
| MJ Hawke | c [unknown] b Tyler | 84 | 9 | - | |||
| JG Hooper | b Tyler | 8 | |||||
| S Blair | c [unknown] b Jayasinha | 0 | - | - | |||
| *MT Brown | c [unknown] b Tyler | 21 | |||||
| BN Stewart | c [unknown] b Hobson | 9 | |||||
| AM Astle | c [unknown] b Hobson | 3 | |||||
| K Walker | not out | 5 | |||||
| JR Crone | b Tyler | 4 | |||||
| Extras | 26 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 90.3 overs) | 298 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-114 (Verhoek), 2-116 (Langridge), 3-185 (Duncan), 4-219 (Hooper), 5-220 (Blair), 6-256 (Brown), 7-274 (Hawke), 8-289, 9-290, 10-298 (90.3 ov) | |||||||
| Horowhenua bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hobson | 18 | 2 | 70 | 2 | - | - | |
| Trask | 9 | 1 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tyler | 36.3 | 11 | 72 | 6 | - | - | |
| Jayasinha | 27 | 3 | 90 | 2 | - | - | |
| Horowhenua second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CP Jayasinha | c [unknown] b Astle | 0 | |||||
| CK Lawton | c [unknown] b Stewart | 0 | |||||
| *RD Stewart | c [unknown] b Stewart | 0 | |||||
| GB de Castro | c [unknown] b Astle | 22 | |||||
| CJ Buckingham | run out | 27 | |||||
| LM Sciascia | c [unknown] b Astle | 4 | |||||
| RJ Haslam | not out | 17 | |||||
| W Stephenson | run out | 17 | |||||
| RW Trask | st [unknown] b Brown | 5 | |||||
| DG Tyler | b Brown | 2 | |||||
| G Hobson | c [unknown] b Brown | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 25.3 overs) | 100 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-34, 5-46, 6-54, 7-77, 8-95, 9-100, 10-100 (25.3 ov) | |||||||
| Manawatu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Astle | 12 | 1 | 54 | 3 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 7 | 1 | 25 | 2 | - | - | |
| Walker | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Brown | 2.3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hooper | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |