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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th March 1953 (4-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | South Africa won by an innings and 180 runs | 
| Umpires | RG Currie, JM McLellan | 
| Close of play day 1 | South Africa (1) 300/6 (McGlew 151*, Murray 29*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 80/1 (Sutcliffe 57*, Fisher 0*) | 
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (2) 58/2 (Leggat 13*, Meuli 6*) | 
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | not out | 255 | 534 | 19 | - | ||
| +JHB Waite | c Mooney b Blair | 35 | |||||
| JC Watkins | c Reid b Blair | 14 | |||||
| KJ Funston | b Fisher | 2 | |||||
| WR Endean | c Mooney b Blair | 41 | |||||
| RA McLean | b Blair | 5 | |||||
| *JE Cheetham | b Burtt | 17 | |||||
| ARA Murray | st Mooney b Burtt | 109 | 219 | 10 | - | ||
| PNF Mansell | run out | 10 | |||||
| HJ Tayfield | not out | 27 | 2 | ||||
| ERH Fuller | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 4 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 174 overs) | 524 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-83 (Watkins), 2-92 (Funston), 3-177 (Endean), 4-187 (McLean), 5-189 (Waite), 6-238 (Cheetham), 7-484 (Murray), 8-494 (Mansell) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 36 | 4 | 98 | 4 | - | - | |
| Fisher | 34 | 6 | 78 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reid | 24 | 8 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Burtt | 44 | 7 | 140 | 2 | - | - | |
| Moir | 35 | 4 | 159 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sutcliffe | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | c McGlew b Watkins | 62 | 175 | - | |||
| JG Leggat | c Fuller b Tayfield | 22 | |||||
| FE Fisher | b Fuller | 9 | |||||
| *WM Wallace | c Waite b Murray | 4 | |||||
| EM Meuli | c Endean b Murray | 15 | |||||
| LSM Miller | c Endean b Tayfield | 17 | |||||
| JR Reid | b Murray | 1 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | not out | 27 | |||||
| AM Moir | run out | 1 | |||||
| TB Burtt | lbw b Fuller | 10 | |||||
| RW Blair | b Fuller | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 123.4 overs) | 172 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-71 (Leggat), 2-91 (Sutcliffe), 3-96 (Wallace), 4-98 (Fisher), 5-127 (Miller), 6-131 (Reid), 7-134 (Meuli), 8-135 (Moir), 9-172 (Burtt), 10-172 (Blair, 123.4 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fuller | 19.4 | 7 | 29 | 3 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 27 | 17 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 38 | 15 | 53 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mansell | 11 | 3 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Murray | 28 | 15 | 30 | 3 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | b Murray | 33 | 6 | - | |||
| JG Leggat | c Endean b Watkins | 47 | 190 | 3 | - | ||
| *WM Wallace | b Tayfield | 2 | |||||
| EM Meuli | b Fuller | 23 | 66 | - | |||
| LSM Miller | c Waite b Watkins | 13 | |||||
| JR Reid | c Waite b Murray | 9 | |||||
| +FLH Mooney | b Tayfield | 9 | 77 | - | |||
| AM Moir | c Fuller b Watkins | 0 | |||||
| FE Fisher | c Waite b Watkins | 14 | 77 | - | |||
| TB Burtt | lbw b Tayfield | 0 | |||||
| RW Blair | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (16 b) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 118.5 overs) | 172 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Sutcliffe), 2-46 (Wallace), 3-109 (Meuli), 4-121 (Leggat), 5-137 (Miller), 6-141 (Reid), 7-142 (Moir), 8-162 (Mooney), 9-162 (Burtt), 10-172 (Fisher, 118.5 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fuller | 27 | 8 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 23.5 | 14 | 22 | 4 | - | - | |
| Murray | 23 | 16 | 19 | 2 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 32 | 12 | 42 | 3 | - | - | |
| Mansell | 13 | 2 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |