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| Venue | Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 28th February, 1st, 2nd March 1981 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Nelson won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | BI Blommaart, DG Farquhar |
| Close of play day 1 | Nelson (1) 463/6 (Terry 49*, Gill 36*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Taranaki (2) 40/2 (West 21*, Walsh 4*; 25 overs) |
| Nelson first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *MH Toynbee | c Muggeridge b Lewington | 115 | 17 | 1 | |||
| AH Jones | st Blackbourn b Lewington | 166 | 310 | 27 | 3 | ||
| +TE Blain | lbw b Lewington | 23 | |||||
| GN Edwards | c Sail b Lewington | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| WG Hodgson | run out | 15 | |||||
| RE Hayward | c Sail b Richards | 25 | |||||
| VP Terry | not out | 65 | |||||
| SJ Gill | run out | 43 | 53 | ||||
| CJ Aitken | b Muggeridge | 2 | |||||
| SJ Abbott | b Robertson | 2 | |||||
| PJ Visser | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 5 lb, 23 nb) | 35 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 120 overs) | 492 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-219 (Toynbee), 2-326, 3-326, 4-332, 5-353, 6-397, 7-471, 8-475, 9-484 | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Robertson | 15 | 4 | 86 | 1 | - | - | |
| Muggeridge | 12 | 1 | 67 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jordan | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lewington | 45 | 16 | 102 | 4 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kirk | 29 | 5 | 108 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sail | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richards | 6 | 1 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Taranaki first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AE Sail | lbw b Abbott | 17 | |||||
| PM Stewart | b Gill | 0 | |||||
| RL West | c Jones b Visser | 1 | |||||
| P Walsh | c Aitken b Toynbee | 35 | 158 | ||||
| BC Richards | lbw b Aitken | 53 | 125 | ||||
| +PM Blackbourn | b Aitken | 7 | |||||
| GK Robertson | c Hodgson b Aitken | 7 | |||||
| *AB Jordan | c Hodgson b Aitken | 13 | 58 | ||||
| PJ Lewington | b Toynbee | 0 | |||||
| CM Kirk | not out | 2 | |||||
| CJ Muggeridge | c Abbott b Toynbee | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 4 lb, 9 nb) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 77.1 overs) | 157 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Stewart), 2-14 (West), 3-26 (Sail), 4-121 (Walsh), 5-121 (Richards), 6-128 (Blackbourn), 7-135 (Robertson), 8-136 (Lewington), 9-154 (Jordan), 10-157 (Muggeridge, 77.1 ov) | |||||||
| Nelson bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Visser | 11 | 5 | 27 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gill | 14 | 8 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Abbott | 16 | 3 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| Toynbee | 16.1 | 10 | 13 | 3 | - | - | |
| Aitken | 19 | 10 | 28 | 4 | - | - | |
| Jones | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Taranaki second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AE Sail | c Blain b Visser | 6 | |||||
| PM Stewart | c and b Gill | 1 | 38 | ||||
| RL West | not out | 21 | |||||
| P Walsh | not out | 4 | |||||
| BC Richards | did not bat | ||||||
| +PM Blackbourn | did not bat | ||||||
| GK Robertson | did not bat | ||||||
| *AB Jordan | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Lewington | did not bat | ||||||
| CM Kirk | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Muggeridge | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 1 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 25 overs) | 40 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Sail), 2-17 (Stewart) | |||||||
| Nelson bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Visser | 8 | 5 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gill | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |
| Abbott | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Toynbee | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Aitken | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |