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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 29th, 30th March 1946 (4-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Australia won by an innings and 103 runs | 
| Umpires | HW Gourlay, MF Pengelly | 
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 149/3 (Miller 14*, Hassett 6*) | 
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WA Hadlee | c Miller b Toshack | 6 | 50 | - | - | ||
| WM Anderson | b Lindwall | 4 | 28 | - | - | ||
| VJ Scott | c Barnes b O'Reilly | 14 | 75 | - | - | ||
| WM Wallace | c Barnes b Toshack | 10 | 42 | - | - | ||
| +EWT Tindill | b Toshack | 1 | 35 | - | - | ||
| CG Rowe | b O'Reilly | 0 | 8 | - | - | ||
| LA Butterfield | lbw b O'Reilly | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| DAN McRae | c Hassett b O'Reilly | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| C Burke | lbw b Toshack | 1 | 4 | - | - | ||
| J Cowie | st Tallon b O'Reilly | 2 | 6 | - | - | ||
| DC Cleverley | not out | 1 | 3 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (3 b) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 39 overs) | 42 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Anderson), 2-15 (Hadlee), 3-37 (Wallace), 4-37 (Scott), 5-37 (Rowe), 6-37 (Butterfield), 7-37 (McRae), 8-39 (Burke), 9-40 (Tindill), 10-42 (Cowie, 39 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lindwall | 8 | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Toshack | 19 | 13 | 12 | 4 | - | - | |
| O'Reilly | 12 | 5 | 14 | 5 | - | - | |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WA Brown | c Rowe b Burke | 67 | 115 | 6 | - | ||
| KD Meuleman | b Cowie | 0 | 7 | - | - | ||
| SG Barnes | b Cowie | 54 | 142 | 4 | - | ||
| KR Miller | c Hadlee b Burke | 30 | 99 | ||||
| AL Hassett | c Tindill b Cowie | 19 | 38 | ||||
| CL McCool | c Hadlee b Cowie | 7 | 32 | ||||
| IWG Johnson | not out | 7 | 26 | ||||
| +D Tallon | c Scott b Cowie | 5 | 18 | - | - | ||
| RR Lindwall | c Anderson b Cowie | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| WJ O'Reilly | did not bat | ||||||
| ERH Toshack | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb, 2 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 74 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Meuleman), 2-118 (Brown), 3-142 (Barnes), 4-174 (Hassett), 5-186 (Miller), 6-186 (McCool), 7-196 (Tallon), 8-199 (Lindwall, 74 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McRae | 14 | 3 | 44 | 0 | - | 4 | |
| Cowie | 21 | 8 | 40 | 6 | - | - | |
| Cleverley | 15 | 1 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Butterfield | 13 | 6 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Burke | 11 | 2 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WA Hadlee | b Miller | 3 | 16 | - | - | ||
| WM Anderson | b Lindwall | 1 | 18 | - | - | ||
| VJ Scott | c Tallon b Miller | 4 | 10 | - | - | ||
| WM Wallace | run out | 14 | 55 | 1 | - | ||
| +EWT Tindill | lbw b Toshack | 13 | 37 | 2 | - | ||
| CG Rowe | b O'Reilly | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| LA Butterfield | lbw b O'Reilly | 0 | 7 | - | - | ||
| C Burke | b Toshack | 3 | 10 | - | - | ||
| DAN McRae | c Meuleman b McCool | 8 | 35 | - | - | ||
| J Cowie | c Toshack b O'Reilly | 0 | 10 | - | - | ||
| DC Cleverley | not out | 1 | 15 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.2 overs) | 54 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Hadlee), 2-5 (Anderson), 3-12 (Scott), 4-36 (Tindill), 5-37 (Rowe), 6-37 (Wallace), 7-39 (Butterfield), 8-41 (Burke), 9-42 (Cowie), 10-54 (McRae, 32.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lindwall | 9 | 3 | 16 | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Toshack | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | - | - | |
| Miller | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | - | - | |
| O'Reilly | 7 | 1 | 19 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| McCool | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |