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| Venue | Recreation Ground, Napier on 26th, 27th December 1884 (2-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 5 | 
| Toss | Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to field | 
| Result | Hawke's Bay won by 8 wickets | 
| Umpires | FC Fulton, W Harden | 
| Close of play day 1 | Hawke's Bay (1) 92/3 (White 48*, Wood 33*) | 
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TA Cox | c Newton b Edwards | 3 | - | - | |||
| +S Nicholls | c Edwards b Wood | 24 | - | - | |||
| FJ Gooder | c Finch b Edwards | 5 | - | - | |||
| H Roberts | b Wood | 24 | 1 | - | |||
| S Alpe | c Downes b Newton | 21 | - | - | |||
| GC Heenan | b Downes | 0 | - | - | |||
| JW Tarleton | b Downes | 10 | - | - | |||
| OC Williams | c Buchanan b Newton | 8 | - | - | |||
| HW Lawson | not out | 4 | - | - | |||
| *CA Knapp | c Wood b Edwards | 1 | - | - | |||
| WP McGirr | c Martin b Edwards | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb, 1 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 57.1 overs) | 109 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Cox), 2-? (Gooder), 3-57 (Roberts), 4-70 (Nicholls), 5-70 (Heenan), 6-92 (Tarleton), 7-104 (Williams), 8-105 (Alpe), 9-109 (Knapp), 10-109 (McGirr, 57.1 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| Newton | 9 | 1 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 
| Edwards | 14.1 | 4 | 17 | 4 | - | - | 
| Percy | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | 
| Downes | 16 | 5 | 37 | 2 | - | - | 
| Wood | 14 | 4 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WP Finch | b Lawson | 0 | - | - | |||
| J Spivey | b Lawson | 2 | - | - | |||
| GM White | b Cox | 87 | |||||
| JH Martin | b McGirr | 1 | - | - | |||
| *JWH Wood | b Gooder | 39 | |||||
| CL Tuke | st Nicholls b Cox | 9 | |||||
| RW Percy | c Nicholls b McGirr | 1 | |||||
| +WB Buchanan | lbw b Cox | 6 | |||||
| J Downes | st Nicholls b Cox | 1 | |||||
| GM Newton | not out | 2 | |||||
| CH Edwards | b McGirr | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 62.4 overs) | 159 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Spivey), 2-7 (Finch), 3-22 (Martin), 4-106 (Wood), 5-138 (Tuke), 6-147 (Percy), 7-154 (Buchanan), 8-157 (White), 9-159 (Downes), 10-159 (Edwards, 62.4 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| Lawson | 18 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 
| McGirr | 19.4 | 3 | 56 | 3 | - | - | 
| Roberts | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | 
| Gooder | 12 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 
| Williams | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | 
| Cox | 7 | 1 | 12 | 4 | - | - | 
| Wellington second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *CA Knapp | b Newton | 2 | |||||
| +S Nicholls | c Tuke b Newton | 1 | |||||
| GC Heenan | b Edwards | 8 | |||||
| H Roberts | b Newton | 5 | |||||
| TA Cox | run out | 0 | |||||
| HW Lawson | b Newton | 0 | |||||
| S Alpe | b Newton | 4 | |||||
| OC Williams | st +Spivey b Edwards | 9 | |||||
| JW Tarleton | c and b Edwards | 6 | |||||
| FJ Gooder | not out | 5 | |||||
| WP McGirr | c Finch b Newton | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 2 lb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.2 overs) | 52 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Nicholls), 2-11 (Knapp), 3-13 (Heenan), 4-13 (Cox), 5-13 (Lawson), 6-20 (Roberts), 7-31 (Alpe), 8-39 (Williams), 9-46 (Tarleton), 10-52 (McGirr, 32.2 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| Newton | 16.2 | 4 | 20 | 6 | - | - | 
| Edwards | 16 | 6 | 20 | 3 | - | - | 
| Hawke's Bay second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WP Finch | lbw b Roberts | 0 | |||||
| CL Tuke | not out | 1 | |||||
| *JWH Wood | c Nicholls b McGirr | 1 | |||||
| GM White | not out | 1 | |||||
| J Spivey | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Martin | did not bat | ||||||
| RW Percy | did not bat | ||||||
| +WB Buchanan | did not bat | ||||||
| J Downes | did not bat | ||||||
| GM Newton | did not bat | ||||||
| CH Edwards | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 1.4 overs) | 3 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Finch), 2-1 (Wood) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | 
| McGirr | 0.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 
| Roberts | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - |