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| Venue | Temuka Oval, Temuka on 28th, 29th December 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | North Canterbury won by 3 wickets |
| Umpires | JTF Bull, B Dore |
| Close of play day 1 | North Canterbury (1) 61/8 (Merrin 23*, Abbott 0*) |
| South Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JW Durning | b Merrin | 0 | 11 | 15 | - | - | |
| BW Andrews | c Williams b Hight | 52 | 196 | 5 | - | ||
| JU Varcoe | run out | 19 | 50 | - | - | ||
| NE Veitch | b Davies | 11 | 60 | 1 | - | ||
| L Bailey | lbw b Merrin | 5 | 14 | - | - | ||
| LS Williams | b Abbott | 2 | 45 | - | - | ||
| G Austin | lbw b Hight | 1 | 9 | 23 | - | - | |
| KW Gloag | c Williams b Abbott | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| RW Greer | lbw b Abbott | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| BJ Davidson | c Wright b Abbott | 5 | 9 | 13 | - | - | |
| IS MacFadyen | not out | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 46.6 overs) | 100 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Durning), 2-26 (Varcoe), 3-61 (Veitch), 4-72 (Bailey), 5-93 (Williams), 6-93 (Andrews), 7-94 (Gloag), 8-94 (Greer), 9-96 (Austin), 10-100 (Davidson, 46.6 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Abbott | 12.6 | 6 | 21 | 4 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 14 | 3 | 29 | 2 | - | - | |
| Davies | 11 | 2 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hight | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | - | - | |
| Masefield | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PC Devlin | lbw b Davidson | 3 | 80 | - | - | ||
| +PR Williams | c Bailey b Davidson | 15 | 58 | 1 | - | ||
| AJ Devlin | c Davidson b MacFadyen | 0 | 9 | - | - | ||
| NH Wright | c Durning b Davidson | 3 | 32 | - | - | ||
| R van Zanten | c Bailey b Davidson | 9 | 32 | 1 | - | ||
| RJ Sowden | b Austin | 3 | 50 | - | - | ||
| JW Davies | b Austin | 9 | 33 | 1 | - | ||
| *RC Merrin | b Davidson | 46 | 125 | 5 | 2 | ||
| CM Hight | c Williams b Austin | 0 | 6 | 3 | - | - | |
| CM Abbott | not out | 17 | 1 | - | |||
| RV Masefield | not out | 1 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (10 b, 7 lb, 10 nb) | 27 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 56 overs) | 133 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Williams), 2-28 (AJ Devlin), 3-30 (PC Devlin), 4-41 (Wright), 5-48 (van Zanten), 6-59 (Davies), 7-60 (Sowden), 8-60 (Hight), 9-128 (Merrin) | |||||||
| South Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacFadyen | 15 | 5 | 27 | 1 | - | 10 | |
| Davidson | 25 | 16 | 22 | 5 | - | - | |
| Williams | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Austin | 10 | 6 | 18 | 3 | - | - | |
| Varcoe | 3 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BW Andrews | lbw b Sowden | 4 | 98 | - | - | ||
| JW Durning | b Hight | 3 | 19 | - | - | ||
| LS Williams | c Williams b Masefield | 13 | 71 | 1 | - | ||
| KW Gloag | b Masefield | 24 | 62 | 1 | - | ||
| NE Veitch | c Williams b Sowden | 1 | 13 | - | - | ||
| IS MacFadyen | run out | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| L Bailey | c van Zanten b Masefield | 1 | 3 | - | - | ||
| G Austin | lbw b Masefield | 5 | 9 | 1 | - | ||
| JU Varcoe | c AJ Devlin b Merrin | 15 | 1 | - | |||
| RW Greer | c Abbott b Masefield | 7 | - | - | |||
| BJ Davidson | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (12 b, 1 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 41.7 overs) | 86 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Durning), 2-23 (Williams), 3-31 (Andrews), 4-39 (Veitch), 5-39 (MacFadyen), 6-41 (Bailey), 7-53 (Austin), 8-68 (Gloag), 9-82 (Varcoe), 10-86 (Greer, 41.7 ov) | |||||||
| North Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Abbott | 11 | 6 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hight | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |
| Merrin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Davies | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Masefield | 15.7 | 7 | 35 | 5 | - | - | |
| Sowden | 6 | 0 | 13 | 2 | - | - | |
| North Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R van Zanten | b MacFadyen | 2 | 15 | - | - | ||
| AJ Devlin | run out | 2 | 43 | - | - | ||
| RJ Sowden | c MacFadyen b Davidson | 22 | 29 | 1 | 2 | ||
| JW Davies | not out | 9 | - | - | |||
| CM Abbott | c Davidson b MacFadyen | 0 | 10 | - | - | ||
| *RC Merrin | c Gloag b MacFadyen | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| PC Devlin | c Austin b MacFadyen | 3 | 12 | - | - | ||
| RV Masefield | lbw b MacFadyen | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| CM Hight | not out | 9 | 1 | - | |||
| +PR Williams | did not bat | ||||||
| NH Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 2 lb, 3 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 16.4 overs) | 55 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (van Zanten), 2-29 (AJ Devlin), 3-29 (Sowden), 4-30 (Abbott), 5-30 (Merrin), 6-37 (PC Devlin), 7-38 (Masefield) | |||||||
| South Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacFadyen | 8.4 | 3 | 14 | 5 | - | 3 | |
| Davidson | 8 | 2 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |