| misc31179 | |
| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 31st March, 2nd April 1945 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Canterbury won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | TW Dick, SM Malden |
| Close of play day 1 | Wellington (1) 82/3 (Rowe 55*, Mooney 9*; 28 overs) |
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IB Cromb | b Duffy | 92 | |||||
| JG Leggat | c Chapman b Ashenden | 3 | |||||
| *WA Hadlee | not out | 194 | 10 | 2 | |||
| LA Butterfield | b Hoar | 0 | |||||
| WM Anderson | c O'Neill b Duffy | 23 | |||||
| KFM Uttley | c Mooney b O'Neill | 53 | 4 | - | |||
| RH Scott | not out | 3 | |||||
| +DM Dunnet | did not bat | ||||||
| TB Burtt | did not bat | ||||||
| DAN McRae | did not bat | ||||||
| NV Burtt | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 98 overs) | 380 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (Leggat), 2-179 (Cromb), 3-182 (Butterfield), 4-221 (Anderson), 5-357 (Uttley) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hoar | 17 | 1 | 56 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Neill | 13 | 2 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ashenden | 17 | 1 | 53 | 1 | - | - | |
| Allen | 23 | 2 | 102 | 0 | - | - | |
| Knapp | 12 | 1 | 47 | 0 | - | - | |
| Duffy | 9 | 1 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Rice | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chapman | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HF Rice | run out | 2 | |||||
| RJ Duffy | b Butterfield | 1 | |||||
| CG Rowe | c Hadlee b McRae | 102 | 170 | 8 | 1 | ||
| RT Barber | run out | 15 | |||||
| *FLH Mooney | b Scott | 12 | |||||
| NR Hoar | st Dunnet b NV Burtt | 3 | |||||
| H Chapman | c and b TB Burtt | 1 | |||||
| EC Knapp | b McRae | 0 | |||||
| SR O'Neill | st Dunnet b TB Burtt | 3 | |||||
| JG Ashenden | b McRae | 40 | 43 | 5 | 1 | ||
| R Allen | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 64.5 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-12, 3-39, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-183 (64.5 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Butterfield | 4.5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| McRae | 13.5 | 2 | 31 | 3 | - | - | |
| TB Burtt | 16 | 3 | 59 | 2 | - | - | |
| Scott | 12 | 4 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| NV Burtt | 18 | 2 | 67 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hadlee | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wellington second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HF Rice | b Scott | 3 | |||||
| RJ Duffy | c TB Burtt b McRae | 2 | |||||
| CG Rowe | b McRae | 79 | 160 | 9 | - | ||
| RT Barber | c Dunnet b McRae | 19 | |||||
| *FLH Mooney | c and b McRae | 90 | 186 | 4 | - | ||
| NR Hoar | b Hadlee | 35 | 50 | 3 | - | ||
| H Chapman | not out | 7 | |||||
| EC Knapp | not out | 7 | |||||
| SR O'Neill | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Ashenden | did not bat | ||||||
| R Allen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 91 overs) | 250 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Rice), 2-7 (Duffy), 3-34 (Barber), 4-163 (Rowe), 5-228 (Hoar), 6-243 (Mooney) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Scott | 20 | 4 | 60 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| McRae | 27 | 12 | 50 | 4 | - | - | |
| Hadlee | 8 | 3 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| NV Burtt | 18 | 3 | 64 | 0 | - | - | |
| TB Burtt | 17 | 3 | 35 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cromb | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |