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| Venue | Trafalgar Park, Nelson on 13th, 14th December 1940 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Marlborough won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Nelson City won by an innings and 152 runs |
| Umpires | CA Exton, J Hildyard, JV Satherley |
| Close of play day 1 | Nelson City (1) 227/4 (O'Keefe 42*, Birch 40*) |
| Marlborough first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| Madden | lbw b Stevens | 3 | |||||
| AH Jellyman | c Newman b Mitchell | 36 | |||||
| AJ Neal | b Stevens | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Geary | c Newman b Stevens | 4 | |||||
| GH Bonsall | b Stevens | 72 | |||||
| GNH Gillett | c Smith b O'Keefe | 17 | |||||
| Hislop | c and b O'Keefe | 37 | |||||
| Fontaine | c Schofield b Gray | 28 | |||||
| +NE Avery | b Mitchell | 25 | |||||
| AC Arnesen | not out | 15 | |||||
| B McMillan | c and b Preece | 5 | |||||
| Extras | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 45 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Madden), 2-9 (Neal), 3-15 (Geary), 4-91 (Jellyman), 5-? (Bonsall), 6-? (Gillett), 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-247 (45 ov) | |||||||
| Nelson City bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Stevens | 15 | 0 | 83 | 4 | - | - | |
| Gray | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Keefe | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 7 | 0 | 39 | 2 | - | - | |
| Neale | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Preece | 1 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Nelson City first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AJ Preece | b Jellyman | 14 | |||||
| L Schofield | c Avery b Arnesen | 54 | |||||
| C Corbett | b McMillan | 47 | |||||
| MP O'Keefe | c and b McMillan | 89 | |||||
| *WAC Smith | lbw b Jellyman | 20 | |||||
| TAJ Birch | lbw b Arnesen | 138 | |||||
| ER Neale | c Avery b Madden | 29 | |||||
| R Newman | not out | 110 | 14 | 2 | |||
| OJ Mitchell | lbw b Neal | 4 | |||||
| J Stevens | st Avery b McMillan | 27 | |||||
| AJ Gray | b Madden | 14 | |||||
| Extras | 37 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 112.5 overs) | 583 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53 (Preece), 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-583 (112.5 ov) | |||||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McMillan | 24 | 3 | 112 | 3 | - | - | |
| Arnesen | 24 | 2 | 94 | 2 | - | - | |
| Jellyman | 17 | 1 | 94 | 2 | - | - | |
| Neal | 19 | 1 | 98 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hislop | 7 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Geary | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bonsall | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Madden | 8.5 | 1 | 37 | 2 | - | - | |
| Marlborough second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AH Jellyman | lbw b Stevens | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| GNH Gillett | c Mitchell b Preece | 18 | |||||
| Geary | lbw b Stevens | 26 | |||||
| AJ Neal | lbw b Preece | 1 | |||||
| GH Bonsall | c and b Stevens | 58 | |||||
| Madden | b Gray | 8 | |||||
| Hislop | b Stevens | 34 | |||||
| Fontaine | b Stevens | 0 | |||||
| +NE Avery | c Newman b Mitchell | 0 | |||||
| AC Arnesen | c Birch b Stevens | 15 | |||||
| B McMillan | not out | 22 | |||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 40.2 overs) | 184 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Jellyman, 0.3 ov), 2-?, 3-?, 4-49, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-184 (40.2 ov) | |||||||
| Nelson City bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Stevens | 15.2 | 2 | 62 | 6 | - | - | |
| O'Keefe | 8 | 0 | 37 | 0 | - | - | |
| Preece | 7 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gray | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |