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| Venue | Rectory Ground, Timaru on 2nd, 3rd March 1948 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | GE Davies, PE Islip |
| Close of play day 1 | Fiji (1) 47/0 (Apted 30*, Cakobau 17*; 9 overs) |
| South Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JEC McEwen | b Fenn | 13 | |||||
| NJ Riley | c Apted b Gosling | 45 | 8 | - | |||
| R Bowden | b Gosling | 4 | |||||
| W Morley | hit wkt b Snow | 35 | |||||
| NH Gould | c and b Gosling | 0 | |||||
| SR Askey | b Fenn | 28 | 4 | 1 | |||
| T Gallagher | b Fenn | 2 | |||||
| +JP Lang | c Wendt b Snow | 9 | |||||
| RG Wilson | c Kubunavanua b Fenn | 2 | |||||
| RW Biggar | not out | 44 | 7 | 1 | |||
| LG Taylor | c Apted b Fenn | 18 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 9 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 165 minutes, 57 overs) | 213 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-59, 2-67, 3-76, 4-80, 5-115, 6-139, 7-145, 8-150, 9-151, 10-213 (57 ov) | |||||||
| Fiji bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Logavatu | 6 | 2 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cakobau | 7 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Aria | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wendt | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fenn | 22 | 8 | 59 | 5 | - | - | |
| Gosling | 11 | 1 | 39 | 3 | - | - | |
| Snow | 4 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | - | |
| Fiji first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HJ Apted | c Lang b Gould | 30 | |||||
| GK Cakobau | b Taylor | 44 | |||||
| IL Bula | c Taylor b Bowden | 53 | 5 | 3 | |||
| *PA Snow | b Taylor | 37 | |||||
| A Turuva | run out | 45 | |||||
| AJ Wendt | c Gould b Biggar | 2 | |||||
| KT Aria | b Taylor | 6 | |||||
| +P Kubunavanua | not out | 49 | |||||
| MJ Fenn | b Bowden | 7 | |||||
| IT Logavatu | not out | 45 | |||||
| JW Gosling | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (18 b, 6 lb, 1 w) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 75 overs) | 343 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Apted), 2-108, 3-140, 4-199, 5-204, 6-222, 7-247, 8-262 | |||||||
| South Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Biggar | 19 | 2 | 88 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Gould | 15 | 1 | 71 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bowden | 15 | 1 | 53 | 2 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 19 | 0 | 68 | 3 | - | - | |
| McEwen | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NJ Riley | st Kubunavanua b Fenn | 8 | |||||
| JEC McEwen | c and b Snow | 39 | |||||
| R Bowden | lbw b Fenn | 3 | |||||
| W Morley | st Kubunavanua b Fenn | 14 | |||||
| NH Gould | b Fenn | 15 | |||||
| SR Askey | b Fenn | 10 | |||||
| T Gallagher | c Bula b Gosling | 14 | |||||
| +JP Lang | c Wendt b Gosling | 2 | |||||
| RG Wilson | not out | 6 | |||||
| RW Biggar | lbw b Fenn | 0 | |||||
| LG Taylor | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 1 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 45 overs) | 116 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Riley), 2-22 (Bowden), 3-48 (Morley), 4-74, 5-86, 6-91, 7-108, 8-108, 9-109 | |||||||
| Fiji bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fenn | 23 | 9 | 37 | 6 | - | - | |
| Cakobau | 12 | 4 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Snow | 8 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gosling | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | |