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| Venue | Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North on 25th, 26th February 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Manawatu won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Manawatu won on first innings) |
| Close of play day 1 | Manawatu (1) 308/9 (Crone 21*, Stewart 11*; 92 overs) |
| Manawatu first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IDS Smith | b Wheeler | 115 | 175 | 22 | - | ||
| PJ Verhoek | c and b O'Sullivan | 26 | 3 | - | |||
| GJ Langridge | lbw b Morland | 37 | 5 | - | |||
| MJ Hawke | lbw b Morland | 24 | 3 | - | |||
| GHR Duncan | c Rosenberg b Morland | 13 | |||||
| JG Hooper | b Morland | 8 | |||||
| +LW Downes | c Francis b Morland | 0 | - | - | |||
| *MT Brown | c Francis b Selby | 26 | |||||
| AM Astle | b O'Sullivan | 2 | - | - | |||
| JR Crone | not out | 21 | |||||
| BN Stewart | not out | 11 | |||||
| Extras | 25 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 92 overs) | 308 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-113 (Verhoek), 2-162 (Smith), 3-218, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-? | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wheeler | 18 | 4 | 64 | 1 | - | - | |
| Selby | 12 | 3 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ellis | 10 | 3 | 37 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morland | 30 | 10 | 60 | 5 | - | - | |
| O'Sullivan | 22 | 4 | 74 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BJ Rosenberg | c Downes b Astle | 47 | 4 | - | |||
| DM Morland | c Smith b Astle | 36 | 4 | - | |||
| DK Poulgrain | c and b Brown | 3 | - | - | |||
| EB McSweeney | b Brown | 1 | - | - | |||
| PJF Dailey | c Smith b Brown | 7 | |||||
| SF Bevin | c Downes b Brown | 4 | - | ||||
| +JG Francis | c Downes b Stewart | 19 | |||||
| *RH Ellis | c Hooper b Stewart | 3 | - | - | |||
| DR O'Sullivan | c Stewart b Brown | 108 | 117 | 16 | - | ||
| IR Wheeler | c Smith b Brown | 15 | 3 | - | |||
| PC Selby | not out | 1 | - | - | |||
| Extras | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 87.6 overs) | 259 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-90 (Rosenberg), 2-? (Morland), 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-110, 8-236, 9-258, 10-259 (87.6 ov) | |||||||
| Manawatu bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Astle | 23 | 5 | 64 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 25 | 7 | 82 | 2 | - | - | |
| Crone | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Brown | 29.6 | 6 | 70 | 6 | - | - | |
| Hooper | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |