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| Venue | Hagley Oval, Christchurch on 31st December 1956, 1st January 1957 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Canterbury XI won by 5 wickets |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Central Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SG McKnight | lbw b Heseltine | 31 | |||||
| CP Johnston | b Gunn | 25 | |||||
| RJM Blakely | lbw b Gunn | 0 | |||||
| OM Becker | lbw b Flint | 3 | |||||
| RA Procter | lbw b Harper | 19 | |||||
| JD Buttar | c Gunn b Wright | 3 | |||||
| JAN Blakely | c Heseltine b Harper | 0 | |||||
| +K Faulks | b Flint | 14 | |||||
| JG Flannery | b Black | 15 | |||||
| N Harris | c Percival b Black | 2 | |||||
| GS Harford | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 7 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 69.1 overs) | 119 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-119 (69.1 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Heseltine | 13 | 7 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gunn | 11 | 5 | 18 | 2 | - | - | |
| Harper | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | - | - | |
| Wright | 15 | 7 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Black | 16.1 | 3 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| Percival | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Flint | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | - | |
| Canterbury XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BM Pankhurst | c McKnight b JAN Blakely | 38 | |||||
| JE Le Comte | c [unknown] b Harford | 0 | |||||
| M Flint | b Johnston | 21 | |||||
| *RG Condliffe | c and b Harford | 0 | |||||
| JB Percival | c Buttar b JAN Blakely | 45 | 9 | - | |||
| AF Wright | c Buttar b JAN Blakely | 26 | |||||
| G Harper | c Buttar b Harford | 17 | |||||
| B Heseltine | b Harford | 10 | |||||
| L Dunn | c Procter b JAN Blakely | 0 | |||||
| R Black | not out | 1 | |||||
| DS Gunn | b Harford | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48 overs) | 169 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Le Comte), 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-169 (48 ov) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Harford | 22 | 9 | 59 | 5 | - | - | |
| Johnston | 9 | 2 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Buttar | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| JAN Blakely | 14 | 3 | 37 | 4 | - | - | |
| Central Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SG McKnight | c and b Wright | 4 | |||||
| CP Johnston | c Pankhurst b Black | 23 | |||||
| RJM Blakely | lbw b Wright | 23 | |||||
| OM Becker | c Gunn b Heseltine | 14 | |||||
| RA Procter | run out | 3 | |||||
| JD Buttar | lbw b Heseltine | 4 | |||||
| N Harris | b Heseltine | 53 | 5 | 2 | |||
| JAN Blakely | b Black | 42 | |||||
| +K Faulks | b Black | 0 | |||||
| GS Harford | c and b Heseltine | 3 | |||||
| JG Flannery | not out | 19 | |||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 61 overs) | 190 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-190 (61 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wright | 11 | 4 | 41 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gunn | 10 | 3 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Heseltine | 12 | 2 | 34 | 4 | - | - | |
| Black | 20 | 7 | 49 | 3 | - | - | |
| Flint | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Harper | 6 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Canterbury XI second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AF Wright | b Harford | 37 | |||||
| DS Gunn | run out | 39 | |||||
| BM Pankhurst | c Faulks b Harford | 8 | |||||
| *RG Condliffe | c Buttar b JAN Blakely | 0 | |||||
| JE Le Comte | st Faulks b JAN Blakely | 0 | |||||
| JB Percival | not out | 51 | 6 | 2 | |||
| G Harper | not out | 0 | |||||
| M Flint | did not bat | ||||||
| B Heseltine | did not bat | ||||||
| L Dunn | did not bat | ||||||
| R Black | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 97 minutes, 26.3 overs) | 142 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-? (Wright), 2-? (Pankhurst), 3-? (Condliffe), 4-69 (Le Comte), 5-138 (Gunn) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Harford | 13.3 | 1 | 61 | 2 | - | - | |
| JAN Blakely | 13 | 0 | 74 | 2 | - | - | |
In the Canterbury XI first innings JE Le Comte was caught by Blakely but it is not known which Blakely took the catch
N Harris and JAN Blakely added 75 for the seventh wicket in the Central Otago second innings
DS Gunn and JB Percival added 69 for the fifth wicket in the Canterbury XI second innings
Canterbury XI had 105 minutes to score 141 to win the match outright and reached their target with 8 minutes to spare
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