hawke478	Southland v Hawke's Bay
	Hawke Cup 1973/74 (Challenge Match)
Venue	Queen's Park, Invercargill on 9th, 10th, 11th February 1974 (3-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Southland won by 7 wickets
Umpires	ASH Cutler, AJ Watkins
Close of play day 1
Close of play day 2	Southland (1) 130/6 (Thompson 40*)

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Hawke's Bay first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AW Parris	b JC Alabaster	29
BF Foote	c Mahoney b Thomson	2
RPJ Reaney	c Anderson b Ashby	20
AT Paterson	c Thompson b JC Alabaster	15
DM Morland	b GD Alabaster	11
RH Ellis	not out	58
+RM Schofield	c O'Connor b GD Alabaster	3
*BDM Furlong	lbw b JC Alabaster	6
JH Howell	c Mahoney b JC Alabaster	3
WA Greenstreet	b Thomson	22
D Beuth	b Thomson	0
Extras	(3 b, 3 lb, 1 nb)	7
Total	(all out, 69 overs)	176
Fall of wickets:
1-8, 2-46, 3-66, 4-68, 5-96, 6-104, 7-121, 8-133, 9-168, 10-176 (69 ov)

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Thomson	11	4	19	3	-	-
Ashby	11	3	27	1	-	-
GD Alabaster	19	4	44	2	-	-
JC Alabaster	27	5	78	4	-	-
Mahoney	1	0	1	0	-	-

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Southland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+NR Thompson	c Reaney b Greenstreet	45
KJ O'Connor	c Schofield b Furlong	52
RW Anderson	lbw b Greenstreet	3
GH Murdoch	c Furlong b Greenstreet	2
DM Crombie	c Paterson b Greenstreet	0
LD Hollands	c Parris b Furlong	4
*GD Alabaster	c Reaney b Ellis	9
AJ Mahoney	not out	33
JC Alabaster	b Greenstreet	4
GB Thomson	lbw b Greenstreet	1
GA Ashby	c Reaney b Greenstreet	6
Extras	(6 b, 4 lb)	10
Total	(all out, 89 overs)	169
Fall of wickets:
1-86, 2-89, 3-91, 4-91, 5-102, 6-120, 7-139, 8-145, 9-157, 10-169 (89 ov)

Hawke's Bay bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Beuth	7	4	7	0	-	-
Morland	10	5	22	0	-	-
Howell	7	1	25	0	-	-
Furlong	36	13	57	2	-	-
Greenstreet	26	12	45	7	-	-
Ellis	3	2	3	1	-	-

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Hawke's Bay second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AW Parris	c Anderson b GD Alabaster	15
BF Foote	run out	20
AT Paterson	c Thompson b GD Alabaster	2
RPJ Reaney	c and b JC Alabaster	13
DM Morland	c Anderson b GD Alabaster	7
RH Ellis	not out	13
*BDM Furlong	c Crombie b JC Alabaster	1
JH Howell	c O'Connor b GD Alabaster	3
WA Greenstreet	st Thompson b JC Alabaster	2
D Beuth	st Thompson b JC Alabaster	0
+RM Schofield	absent
Extras	(1 b, 1 lb)	2
Total	(all out, 40.3 overs)	78
Fall of wickets:
1-30, 2-32, 3-50, 4-58, 5-58, 6-59, 7-62, 8-72, 9-78 (40.3 ov)

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Thomson	2	0	3	0	-	-
Ashby	1	0	11	0	-	-
GD Alabaster	19	9	27	4	-	-
JC Alabaster	18.3	8	35	4	-	-

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Southland second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+NR Thompson	b Furlong	16
KJ O'Connor	c Ellis b Beuth	3
RW Anderson	run out	45
GH Murdoch	not out	12
DM Crombie	not out	6
LD Hollands	did not bat
*GD Alabaster	did not bat
AJ Mahoney	did not bat
JC Alabaster	did not bat
GB Thomson	did not bat
GA Ashby	did not bat
Extras	(4 lb)	4
Total	(3 wickets, 16.7 overs)	86
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-39, 3-77

Hawke's Bay bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Beuth	3	0	20	1	-	-
Morland	2.7	0	7	0	-	-
Howell	3	0	12	0	-	-
Furlong	5	0	20	1	-	-
Greenstreet	3	0	23	0	-	-

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Schofield was absent due to a family illness.