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| Venue | Cook's Gardens, Wanganui on 12th, 13th February 1954 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Wanganui won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Wanganui won by an innings and 29 runs |
| Umpires | HL Greig, GN McDougall |
| Close of play day 1 | Wairarapa (1) 37/5 (McLeod 9*, O Henson 0*; 21 overs) |
| Wanganui first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BG Hamilton | c Blackwood b Foote | 110 | 269 | 12 | - | ||
| *RE Thomas | b Patrick | 5 | |||||
| +BA Willacy | lbw b Newland | 17 | |||||
| BL Jones | lbw b Cruickshank | 24 | 4 | - | |||
| HB Cave | b Patrick | 96 | 174 | 13 | - | ||
| GS Nimmo | st +Perry b Foote | 0 | |||||
| RW Webby | c Blackwood b Foote | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| RE Brown | b Cruickshank | 41 | 51 | 5 | - | ||
| JAA Bergersen | c +Perry b Foote | 14 | |||||
| JR Barnett | b Newland | 30 | 30 | 3 | - | ||
| EJ Urlich | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (19 b, 12 lb) | 31 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 330 minutes, 120.1 overs) | 372 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Thomas), 2-46 (Willacy), 3-81 (Jones), 4-281 (Hamilton), 5-281 (Nimmo), 6-285 (Webby), 7-287 (Cave), 8-318 (Bergersen), 9-372 (Barnett), 10-372 (Brown, 120.1 ov) | |||||||
| Wairarapa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Patrick | 32 | 4 | 110 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cruickshank | 24.1 | 8 | 52 | 2 | - | - | |
| Newland | 16 | 2 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Masters | 16 | 5 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| McLeod | 12 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | |
| Foote | 20 | 4 | 50 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wairarapa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BH Blackwood | b Brown | 11 | |||||
| BW Henson | b Cave | 10 | |||||
| WKA Masters | b Cave | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| WW Perry | b Cave | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| WJ Foote | b Bergersen | 0 | |||||
| DD McLeod | c Brown b Urlich | 40 | 128 | 6 | - | ||
| +O Henson | lbw b Bergersen | 1 | |||||
| K Percy | b Bergersen | 12 | - | 2 | |||
| *BA Patrick | c Barnett b Brown | 26 | |||||
| A Cruickshank | not out | 2 | |||||
| AI Newland | st Willacy b Urlich | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 158 minutes, 52.2 overs) | 113 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (BW Henson), 2-13 (Masters), 3-13 (Perry), 4-14 (Foote), 5-37 (Blackwood), 6-41 (O Henson), 7-53 (Percy), 8-109 (McLeod), 9-111 (Patrick), 10-113 (Newland, 52.2 ov) | |||||||
| Wanganui bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cave | 19 | 14 | 16 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bergersen | 18 | 5 | 48 | 3 | - | - | |
| Brown | 8 | 3 | 13 | 2 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Urlich | 4.2 | 1 | 13 | 2 | - | - | |
| Wairarapa second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BH Blackwood | c Barnett b Urlich | 41 | 4 | - | |||
| BW Henson | c Brown b Nimmo | 21 | |||||
| WKA Masters | b Brown | 9 | |||||
| WW Perry | b Urlich | 11 | |||||
| WJ Foote | lbw b Brown | 6 | |||||
| DD McLeod | b Bergersen | 11 | |||||
| *BA Patrick | c Thomas b Cave | 68 | 94 | 9 | 1 | ||
| K Percy | c Webby b Thomas | 31 | 58 | ||||
| +O Henson | lbw b Cave | 0 | |||||
| A Cruickshank | b Cave | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| AI Newland | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (22 b, 10 lb) | 32 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 221 minutes, 73.3 overs) | 230 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (BW Henson), 2-56 (Masters), 3-81 (Perry), 4-94 (Foote), 5-100 (Blackwood), 6-147 (McLeod), 7-221 (Percy), 8-223 (O Henson), 9-223 (Cruickshank), 10-230 (Patrick, 73.3 ov) | |||||||
| Wanganui bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cave | 13.3 | 3 | 44 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bergersen | 14 | 0 | 57 | 1 | - | - | |
| Nimmo | 9 | 1 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brown | 21 | 8 | 37 | 2 | - | - | |
| Urlich | 14 | 3 | 32 | 2 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |