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| Venue | Kingsmead, Durban on 20th, 21st, 23rd November 1953 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Natal won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DT Drew, BV Malan |
| Close of play day 1 | Natal (1) 272/4 (Dowling 61*, Keith 1*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (1) 243/3 (Reid 97*, Miller 56*) |
| Natal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *DJ McGlew | c Mooney b Blair | 20 | |||||
| TL Goddard | c Mooney b MacGibbon | 6 | |||||
| JC Watkins | c Mooney b MacGibbon | 49 | 71 | 3 | - | ||
| DF Dowling | c Mooney b Blair | 91 | 272 | 8 | - | ||
| RA McLean | c Chapple b Blair | 120 | 160 | 16 | 1 | ||
| HJ Keith | c Mooney b MacGibbon | 12 | |||||
| DJ Napier | b Overton | 37 | 40 | 5 | - | ||
| AL Upton | not out | 11 | |||||
| HJ Tayfield | not out | 20 | |||||
| +PJL Randles | did not bat | ||||||
| CG Halse | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 6 lb, 5 nb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 375 minutes, 82 overs) | 383 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Goddard), 2-60 (McGlew), 3-83 (Watkins), 4-271 (McLean), 5-289 (Keith), 6-342 (Napier), 7-358 (Dowling) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacGibbon | 20 | 0 | 90 | 3 | - | - | |
| Blair | 18 | 2 | 80 | 3 | - | - | |
| Overton | 19 | 1 | 75 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reid | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rabone | 8 | 1 | 37 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 9 | 1 | 45 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *GO Rabone | lbw b Halse | 0 | |||||
| B Sutcliffe | c and b Tayfield | 37 | 65 | 5 | - | ||
| ME Chapple | lbw b Tayfield | 48 | 78 | 8 | - | ||
| JR Reid | c Halse b Keith | 175 | 240 | 22 | 3 | ||
| LSM Miller | b Tayfield | 91 | 280 | 9 | - | ||
| +FLH Mooney | c Randles b Tayfield | 0 | |||||
| IB Leggat | c Napier b Tayfield | 2 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | b Tayfield | 1 | |||||
| EW Dempster | lbw b Tayfield | 16 | |||||
| RW Blair | c and b Tayfield | 0 | |||||
| GWF Overton | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 6 lb, 1 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 365 minutes, 110.2 overs) | 379 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Rabone), 2-72 (Sutcliffe), 3-91 (Chapple), 4-345 (Reid), 5-345 (Mooney), 6-347 (Leggat), 7-350 (MacGibbon), 8-378 (Dempster), 9-378 (Blair), 10-379 (Miller, 110.2 ov) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Halse | 17 | 4 | 51 | 1 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 11 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 48.2 | 15 | 170 | 8 | - | - | |
| Keith | 28 | 6 | 96 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dowling | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Goddard | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Natal second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *DJ McGlew | not out | 58 | 170 | 5 | - | ||
| TL Goddard | run out | 29 | |||||
| HJ Keith | c Mooney b Dempster | 7 | |||||
| RA McLean | b Leggat | 7 | |||||
| JC Watkins | c Sutcliffe b Leggat | 9 | |||||
| DJ Napier | not out | 3 | |||||
| DF Dowling | did not bat | ||||||
| AL Upton | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Tayfield | did not bat | ||||||
| +PJL Randles | did not bat | ||||||
| CG Halse | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 170 minutes, 46 overs) | 114 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-74 (Goddard), 2-90 (Keith), 3-99 (McLean), 4-111 (Watkins) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacGibbon | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Blair | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Overton | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rabone | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 17 | 5 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Leggat | 10 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | |