misc31822	Northern Districts v Central Districts
	Other matches in New Zealand 1954/55
Venue	Seddon Park, Hamilton on 11th, 12th, 14th March 1955 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Northern Districts won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Northern Districts won by 125 runs
Umpires	FR Paton, HD Pooley
Close of play day 1	Central Districts (1) 65/4 (Meuli 19*, Harford ?*)
Close of play day 2	Central Districts (2) 4/0 (Meuli ?*, Hamilton ?*)

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Northern Districts first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
BB Higgins	c Leggat b Tarrant	0	1	1	-	-
JK Everest	c Jones b Beard	54		152	7	-
*+EC Petrie	c Hamilton b Spence	30			3	-
HW Larmer	run out (Leggat)	34		118
PH Smith	c Jones b Meuli	13
EL Child	b Spence	1			-	-
AG McHugh	b Meuli	12
DJ Gray	not out	6
DB Clarke	c Jones b Brian	24			5	-
JA Turnbull	b Jones	3			-	-
DC Hoskin	c Walker b Meuli	0			-	-
Extras	(1 b, 4 lb, 1 nb)	6
Total	(all out, 89 overs)	183
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Higgins, 0.1 ov), 2-56 (Petrie), 3-116 (Everest), 4-134 (Smith), 5-135 (Child), 6-144 (Larmer), 7-149 (McHugh), 8-180 (Clarke), 9-183 (Turnbull), 10-183 (Hoskin, 89 ov)

Central Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tarrant	10	6	20	1	-	-
Brian	18	12	30	1	-	-
Beard	24	7	40	1	-	-
Spence	23	2	73	2	-	-
Meuli	12	4	14	3	-	-
Jones	2	2	0	1	-	-

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Central Districts first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
DV Spence	st Petrie b Child	6
BG Hamilton	c Hoskin b Child	13
BL Jones	b Hoskin	19
EM Meuli	c Petrie b Clarke	27
*DW Bowden	lbw b Clarke	0
NS Harford	lbw b Higgins	31
DD Beard	c Higgins b Clarke	5
IB Leggat	b Clarke	4
DE Brian	b Clarke	12
+NF Walker	c Clarke b Turnbull	0
DR Tarrant	not out	0
Extras	(7 b, 2 lb, 1 nb)	10
Total	(all out, 45.2 overs)	127
Fall of wickets:
1-18 (Hamilton), 2-21 (Spence), 3-47 (Jones), 4-53 (Bowden), 5-84 (Meuli), 6-111 (Harford), 7-113 (Beard), 8-122 (Leggat), 9-127 (Brian), 10-127 (Walker, 45.2 ov)

Northern Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Clarke	19	5	51	5	-	-
Child	11	5	19	2	-	-
Hoskin	4	0	11	1	-	-
Turnbull	6.2	1	9	1	-	-
Higgins	5	0	27	1	-	-

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Northern Districts second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JK Everest	b Beard	22
*+EC Petrie	lbw b Beard	9
HW Larmer	c Hamilton b Beard	0
PH Smith	run out (Beard->Walker)	11
EL Child	b Harford	57		115	8	-
DB Clarke	c Harford b Beard	24			4	-
DJ Gray	st Walker b Spence	30
AG McHugh	lbw b Harford	1
BB Higgins	c Bowden b Tarrant	14
JA Turnbull	b Tarrant	18
DC Hoskin	not out	0
Extras	(17 b, 8 lb)	25
Total	(all out, 83 overs)	211
Fall of wickets:
1-13 (Petrie), 2-13 (Larmer), 3-33 (Smith), 4-58 (Everest), 5-143 (Child), 6-145 (Clarke), 7-146 (McHugh), 8-165 (Higgins), 9-203 (Gray), 10-211 (Turnbull, 83 ov)

Central Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tarrant	22	6	55	2	-	-
Beard	26	10	52	4	-	-
Spence	9	1	30	1	-	-
Meuli	1	0	1	0	-	-
Jones	5	2	15	0	-	-
Brian	3	2	1	0	-	-
Harford	17	8	32	2	-	-

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Central Districts second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
EM Meuli	c Everest b Turnbull	16		82
BG Hamilton	c Petrie b Hoskin	7
DV Spence	c McHugh b Turnbull	1
NS Harford	c and b Turnbull	7
IB Leggat	c Larmer b Turnbull	5
*DW Bowden	b Clarke	0
DD Beard	c Hoskin b Child	17
BL Jones	c Turnbull b Hoskin	30
DE Brian	c Petrie b Clarke	41		54	6	-
+NF Walker	run out (Smith->Petrie)	4
DR Tarrant	not out	0
Extras	(11 b, 3 lb)	14
Total	(all out, 63.1 overs)	142
Fall of wickets:
1-27 (Hamilton), 2-31 (Meuli), 3-32 (Spence), 4-37 (Leggat), 5-37 (Bowden), 6-43 (Harford), 7-67 (Beard), 8-115 (Jones), 9-120 (Walker), 10-142 (Brian, 63.1 ov)

Northern Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Clarke	21.1	10	49	2	-	-
Child	13	5	30	1	-	-
Turnbull	17	7	38	4	-	-
Hoskin	9	5	9	2	-	-
Everest	3	1	2	0	-	-

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