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| Venue | Hagley Oval, Christchurch on 29th, 30th, 31st January 1881 (3-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 4 | 
| Players | Canterbury: 15; Australians: 11 | 
| Toss | Canterbury won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Australians won by an innings and 100 runs | 
| Close of play day 1 | Australians (1) 95/3 (Murdoch 43*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | Australians (1) 323 all out | 
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CC Corfe | b Palmer | 9 | |||||
| G Watson | run out (Slight) | 2 | |||||
| WE Leach | c Murdoch b Spofforth | 18 | |||||
| DA Ashby | c Murdoch b Spofforth | 2 | |||||
| JF Hartland | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| HH Secretan | not out | 30 | |||||
| *AM Ollivier | b Spofforth | 2 | |||||
| W Frith | c Tobin b Spofforth | 16 | |||||
| +E Fowler | b Spofforth | 8 | |||||
| WP Reeves | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| EJ Cotterill | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| AT Redmayne | c Boyle b Spofforth | 1 | |||||
| C Frith | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| WS Beard | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| ETA Fuller | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 66.1 overs) | 90 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Watson), 2-20 (Corfe), 3-25 (Ashby), 4-27 (Hartland), 5-45 (Leach), 6-47 (Ollivier), 7-66 (W Frith), 8-75 (Fowler), 9-78 (Reeves), 10-78 (Cotterill), 11-87 (Redmayne), 12-90 (C Frith), 13-90 (Beard), 14-90 (Fuller, 66.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| Spofforth | 33.1 | 11 | 48 | 6 | - | - | 
| Palmer | 33 | 14 | 40 | 6 | - | - | 
| Australians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TU Groube | c W Frith b C Frith | 42 | |||||
| FR Spofforth | b Fuller | 3 | |||||
| PS McDonnell | c Fowler b W Frith | 7 | |||||
| *WL Murdoch | c and b Secretan | 111 | |||||
| J Slight | not out | 45 | |||||
| AH Jarvis | c Secretan b W Frith | 0 | |||||
| HF Boyle | c Fuller b Ashby | 32 | |||||
| GE Palmer | b Secretan | 3 | |||||
| +JM Blackham | c Cotterill b C Frith | 38 | |||||
| G Alexander | c Cotterill b Ashby | 0 | |||||
| WA Tobin | c and b W Frith | 31 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 186.1 overs) | 323 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8 (Spofforth), 2-82 (Groube), 3-95 (McDonnell), 4-124 (Jarvis), 5-195 (Boyle), 6-202 (Palmer), 7-231 (Murdoch), 8-? (Blackham), 9-270 (Alexander), 10-323 (Tobin, 186.1 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| C Frith | 25 | 11 | 47 | 2 | - | - | 
| Fuller | 38 | 15 | 52 | 1 | - | - | 
| W Frith | 52.1 | 24 | 57 | 3 | - | - | 
| Beard | 15 | 3 | 38 | 0 | - | - | 
| Ashby | 39 | 9 | 83 | 2 | 1 | - | 
| Secretan | 17 | 5 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 
| Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *AM Ollivier | b Spofforth | 5 | |||||
| G Watson | b Spofforth | 10 | |||||
| WE Leach | b Spofforth | 6 | |||||
| HH Secretan | c Boyle b Spofforth | 0 | |||||
| JF Hartland | c Jarvis b Spofforth | 24 | |||||
| CC Corfe | st Blackham b Palmer | 4 | |||||
| WP Reeves | b Palmer | 4 | |||||
| DA Ashby | c and b Palmer | 3 | |||||
| W Frith | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| +E Fowler | c Spofforth b Palmer | 24 | |||||
| EJ Cotterill | c Slight b Spofforth | 5 | |||||
| AT Redmayne | not out | 9 | |||||
| C Frith | b Palmer | 6 | |||||
| WS Beard | st Blackham b Palmer | 3 | |||||
| ETA Fuller | b Palmer | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (20 b, 8 lb) | 28 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 75.2 overs) | 133 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Ollivier), 2-19 (Watson), 3-19 (Secretan), 4-42 (Leach), 5-51 (Corfe), 6-61 (Reeves), 7-67 (Ashby), 8-69 (W Frith), 9-75 (Hartland), 10-85 (Cotterill), 11-115 (Fowler), 12-123 (C Frith), 13-127 (Beard), 14-133 (Fuller, 75.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| Spofforth | 38 | 18 | 55 | 6 | - | - | 
| Palmer | 37.2 | 13 | 50 | 8 | - | - |