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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th March 1946 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australians won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australians won by an innings and 180 runs |
| Umpires | RW Mitchell, OR Montgomery |
| Close of play day 1 | Australians (1) 366/3 (Miller 99*, Hassett 28*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Auckland (1) 51/3 (WM Wallace 6*, Scott 10*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Auckland (2) 153/3 (WM Wallace 54*, Scott 14*) |
| Australians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WA Brown | b Burke | 68 | 157 | 7 | - | ||
| KD Meuleman | run out (Pearson->Kerr) | 53 | 6 | - | |||
| SG Barnes | b Kerr | 107 | 13 | - | |||
| KR Miller | b Cowie | 139 | 226 | 13 | 1 | ||
| AL Hassett | c Emery b Cleverley | 121 | 246 | 15 | - | ||
| +D Tallon | run out (WM Wallace->Kent) | 31 | 43 | ||||
| IWG Johnson | not out | 28 | 90 | ||||
| RR Lindwall | b Cleverley | 6 | |||||
| B Dooland | run out (Pearson) | 2 | |||||
| WJ O'Reilly | c GF Wallace b Burke | 1 | |||||
| ERH Toshack | run out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (15 b, 2 lb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 481 minutes, 178.5 overs) | 579 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-96 (Meuleman), 2-177 (Brown), 3-282 (Barnes), 4-440 (Miller), 5-494 (Tallon), 6-550 (Hassett), 7-562 (Lindwall), 8-565 (Dooland), 9-566 (O'Reilly), 10-579 (Toshack, 178.5 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Cowie | 49 | 7 | 153 | 1 | - | - |
| Emery | 12 | 4 | 45 | 0 | - | - |
| Cleverley | 38.5 | 11 | 118 | 2 | - | - |
| Burke | 39 | 3 | 140 | 2 | - | - |
| Kerr | 40 | 5 | 106 | 1 | - | - |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PE Whitelaw | c Lindwall b O'Reilly | 8 | |||||
| HT Pearson | b Lindwall | 7 | |||||
| AC Kerr | lbw b Toshack | 16 | |||||
| *WM Wallace | b Toshack | 22 | |||||
| VJ Scott | not out | 41 | |||||
| GF Wallace | b O'Reilly | 17 | |||||
| RWG Emery | lbw b Toshack | 5 | |||||
| C Burke | lbw b Toshack | 3 | |||||
| +LAW Kent | lbw b O'Reilly | 6 | |||||
| J Cowie | b Toshack | 0 | |||||
| DC Cleverley | lbw b O'Reilly | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 5 lb, 1 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 193 minutes, 68 overs) | 138 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Pearson), 2-26 (Whitelaw), 3-36 (Kerr), 4-72 (WM Wallace), 5-95 (GF Wallace), 6-100 (Emery), 7-116 (Burke), 8-131 (Kent), 9-132 (Cowie), 10-138 (Cleverley, 68 ov) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Lindwall | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
| Toshack | 25 | 9 | 27 | 5 | - | - |
| O'Reilly | 22 | 6 | 51 | 4 | - | - |
| Dooland | 14 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - |
| Auckland second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PE Whitelaw | c Barnes b Johnson | 16 | 62 | ||||
| HT Pearson | b Toshack | 8 | |||||
| AC Kerr | c Tallon b Toshack | 47 | |||||
| *WM Wallace | b O'Reilly | 78 | 187 | 9 | 1 | ||
| VJ Scott | not out | 56 | 179 | - | - | ||
| GF Wallace | lbw b O'Reilly | 5 | |||||
| RWG Emery | c Lindwall b O'Reilly | 17 | |||||
| C Burke | b Lindwall | 3 | |||||
| +LAW Kent | b O'Reilly | 0 | |||||
| J Cowie | b O'Reilly | 0 | |||||
| DC Cleverley | run out (Lindwall) | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (12 b, 16 lb, 3 nb) | 31 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 344 minutes, 117 overs) | 261 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Pearson), 2-45 (Whitelaw), 3-120 (Kerr), 4-195 (WM Wallace), 5-211 (GF Wallace), 6-239 (Emery), 7-254 (Burke), 8-257 (Kent), 9-257 (Cowie), 10-261 (Cleverley, 117 ov) | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Lindwall | 26 | 6 | 45 | 1 | - | - |
| Toshack | 34 | 11 | 64 | 2 | - | - |
| O'Reilly | 29 | 12 | 52 | 5 | - | - |
| Dooland | 15 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | - |
| Johnson | 9 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | - |
| Barnes | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - |