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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th March 1953 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Africa won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | JC Harris, TM Pearce |
| Close of play day 1 | South Africa (1) 230/4 (Endean 50*, Cheetham 38*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 74/2 (Rabone 6*, Poore 1*) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (1) 245 all out |
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | c Chapple b Dempster | 18 | 65 | - | |||
| +JHB Waite | c Mooney b Blair | 72 | 214 | 6 | - | ||
| JC Watkins | c Reid b Blair | 30 | |||||
| KJ Funston | c Dempster b Poore | 13 | |||||
| WR Endean | st Mooney b Rabone | 116 | 275 | 9 | - | ||
| *JE Cheetham | run out | 54 | 160 | 6 | - | ||
| RA McLean | c Reid b Rabone | 0 | 5 | - | - | ||
| ARA Murray | b Reid | 6 | 46 | - | |||
| PNF Mansell | not out | 30 | 67 | - | |||
| HJ Tayfield | b Rabone | 9 | |||||
| ERH Fuller | c Mooney b Poore | 17 | 31 | - | |||
| Extras | (7 b, 2 lb, 3 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 162 overs) | 377 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (McGlew), 2-78 (Watkins), 3-124 (Funston), 4-139 (Waite), 5-269 (Cheetham), 6-274 (McLean), 7-308 (Murray), 8-330 (Endean), 9-340 (Tayfield), 10-377 (Fuller, 162 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 30 | 6 | 64 | 2 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 28 | 6 | 72 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reid | 22 | 3 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 39 | 9 | 84 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rabone | 24 | 4 | 62 | 3 | - | - | |
| Poore | 19 | 8 | 28 | 2 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | c Waite b Tayfield | 45 | 120 | 5 | 1 | ||
| ME Chapple | c Cheetham b Tayfield | 22 | |||||
| GO Rabone | run out | 29 | 215 | - | |||
| MB Poore | b Mansell | 45 | 153 | 8 | - | ||
| *WM Wallace | c Mansell b Tayfield | 23 | |||||
| LSM Miller | c Waite b Murray | 44 | 144 | - | |||
| +FLH Mooney | c Endean b Tayfield | 2 | |||||
| JR Reid | c Waite b Watkins | 7 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Murray b Watkins | 2 | |||||
| EW Dempster | c Funston b Tayfield | 14 | 66 | - | |||
| RW Blair | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 5 lb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 171.2 overs) | 245 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-54 (Chapple), 2-70 (Sutcliffe), 3-141 (Poore), 4-152 (Rabone), 5-175 (Wallace), 6-185 (Mooney), 7-203 (Reid), 8-207 (MacGibbon), 9-245 (Miller), 10-245 (Dempster, 171.2 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fuller | 37 | 13 | 60 | 0 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 38 | 20 | 51 | 2 | - | - | |
| Murray | 31 | 16 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 46.2 | 19 | 62 | 5 | - | - | |
| Mansell | 18 | 9 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cheetham | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Africa second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | b Reid | 50 | 169 | 4 | - | ||
| +JHB Waite | b Poore | 26 | |||||
| JC Watkins | c Sutcliffe b Poore | 12 | |||||
| RA McLean | c Rabone b MacGibbon | 20 | |||||
| KJ Funston | b Rabone | 17 | |||||
| WR Endean | not out | 47 | 7 | - | |||
| *JE Cheetham | not out | 10 | |||||
| ARA Murray | did not bat | ||||||
| PNF Mansell | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Tayfield | did not bat | ||||||
| ERH Fuller | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 6 lb, 2 nb, 4 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 78 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-62 (Waite), 2-80 (Watkins), 3-116 (McLean), 4-124 (McGlew), 5-173 (Funston) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 11 | 3 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 16 | 6 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reid | 13 | 5 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rabone | 17 | 4 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 13 | 4 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Poore | 8 | 1 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Sutcliffe | run out | 10 | |||||
| ME Chapple | c McGlew b Watkins | 7 | |||||
| GO Rabone | not out | 6 | |||||
| MB Poore | not out | 8 | |||||
| *WM Wallace | did not bat | ||||||
| LSM Miller | did not bat | ||||||
| +FLH Mooney | did not bat | ||||||
| JR Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| AR MacGibbon | did not bat | ||||||
| EW Dempster | did not bat | ||||||
| RW Blair | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 19.3 overs) | 31 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Chapple), 2-20 (Sutcliffe) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fuller | 8 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 8 | 3 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 2.3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mansell | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |