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| Venue | Ellis Park, Johannesburg on 29th, 30th January, 1st, 2nd February 1954 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | South Africa won by 9 wickets |
| Umpires | DT Drew, BV Malan |
| Close of play day 1 | South Africa (1) 200/7 (Waite 24*, Tayfield 10*; 79 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (2) 8/1 (Dempster 5*, Poore 0*; 8 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (2) 148/6 (Sutcliffe 13*, Beck 6*; 72 overs) |
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | lbw b MacGibbon | 61 | 165 | 165 | 3 | - | |
| RJ Westcott | c Chapple b Overton | 43 | 206 | 205 | 3 | - | |
| JC Watkins | c Mooney b MacGibbon | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | - | |
| WR Endean | c Sutcliffe b Overton | 7 | 40 | 41 | - | - | |
| RA McLean | c Sutcliffe b Overton | 0 | 5 | 3 | - | - | |
| CB van Ryneveld | c Mooney b Blair | 11 | 34 | 32 | 2 | - | |
| *JE Cheetham | run out (Sutcliffe) | 29 | 70 | 77 | 3 | - | |
| +JHB Waite | run out (sub [W Bell]) | 52 | 150 | 169 | 4 | - | |
| HJ Tayfield | c Reid b Blair | 19 | 78 | 85 | 1 | - | |
| DEJ Ironside | not out | 3 | 29 | 33 | - | - | |
| NAT Adcock | b Blair | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb, 4 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 415 minutes, 98 overs) | 243 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-104 (McGlew, 42.3 ov), 2-112 (Watkins, 44.2 ov), 3-122 (Westcott, 51.1 ov), 4-122 (McLean, 51.6 ov), 5-125 (Endean, 53.4 ov), 6-139 (van Ryneveld, 58.7 ov), 7-174 (Cheetham, 71 ov), 8-228 (Tayfield, 91.2 ov), 9-243 (Waite, 97.5 ov), 10-243 (Adcock, 98 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 19 | 4 | 42 | 3 | - | 2 | |
| Reid | 21 | 3 | 67 | 0 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 26 | 6 | 57 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Overton | 32 | 10 | 65 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +FLH Mooney | run out (Tayfield->Ironside) | 23 | 90 | 86 | - | - | |
| ME Chapple | c Waite b Ironside | 4 | 29 | 40 | - | - | |
| MB Poore | c and b Tayfield | 18 | 81 | 86 | 1 | - | |
| *B Sutcliffe | c McLean b Tayfield | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| JR Reid | c Waite b Tayfield | 0 | 9 | 9 | - | - | |
| LSM Miller | b Tayfield | 0 | 8 | 8 | - | - | |
| JEF Beck | b Tayfield | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| EW Dempster | not out | 21 | 75 | 76 | 1 | - | |
| AR MacGibbon | st Waite b Ironside | 10 | 41 | 30 | 1 | - | |
| RW Blair | b Tayfield | 1 | 22 | 16 | - | - | |
| GWF Overton | b Adcock | 0 | 11 | 13 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 188 minutes, 46.3 overs) | 79 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Chapple, 9.2 ov), 2-34 (Mooney, 20.7 ov), 3-34 (Sutcliffe, 21.4 ov), 4-34 (Reid, 23.5 ov), 5-42 (Miller, 25.5 ov), 6-42 (Beck, 25.7 ov), 7-46 (Poore, 29.3 ov), 8-69 (MacGibbon, 38.4 ov), 9-76 (Blair, 43.7 ov), 10-79 (Overton, 46.3 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Adcock | 11.3 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ironside | 14 | 5 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 7 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 14 | 7 | 13 | 6 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EW Dempster | c Waite b Watkins | 47 | 118 | 124 | 4 | - | |
| +FLH Mooney | b Adcock | 2 | 13 | 11 | - | - | |
| MB Poore | c Endean b Adcock | 0 | 27 | 35 | - | - | |
| ME Chapple | c sub (KJ Funston) b Watkins | 42 | 142 | 143 | 3 | 1 | |
| JR Reid | c Ironside b Tayfield | 26 | 143 | 129 | - | - | |
| *B Sutcliffe | b Adcock | 23 | 124 | 120 | - | - | |
| LSM Miller | c Waite b Tayfield | 0 | 11 | 8 | - | - | |
| JEF Beck | b Adcock | 21 | 89 | 78 | - | - | |
| AR MacGibbon | b Adcock | 8 | 18 | 27 | - | - | |
| RW Blair | not out | 5 | 33 | 30 | - | - | |
| GWF Overton | c van Ryneveld b Ironside | 1 | 20 | 26 | - | - | |
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 2 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 376 minutes, 92.2 overs) | 188 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Mooney, 2.1 ov), 2-8 (Poore, 10.1 ov), 3-79 (Dempster, 28.7 ov), 4-113 (Chapple, 47.5 ov), 5-139 (Reid, 64.1 ov), 6-141 (Miller, 66.5 ov), 7-168 (Sutcliffe, 79.3 ov), 8-182 (MacGibbon, 85.4 ov), 9-183 (Beck, 86 ov), 10-188 (Overton, 92.2 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Adcock | 26 | 8 | 45 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Ironside | 23.2 | 6 | 50 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Tayfield | 29 | 12 | 48 | 2 | - | - | |
| van Ryneveld | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Watkins | 12 | 4 | 13 | 2 | - | - | |
| South Africa second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | not out | 6 | 23 | 30 | - | - | |
| RJ Westcott | lbw b MacGibbon | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | - | |
| *JE Cheetham | not out | 16 | 25 | 23 | 3 | - | |
| JC Watkins | did not bat | ||||||
| WR Endean | did not bat | ||||||
| RA McLean | did not bat | ||||||
| CB van Ryneveld | did not bat | ||||||
| +JHB Waite | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Tayfield | did not bat | ||||||
| DEJ Ironside | did not bat | ||||||
| NAT Adcock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 30 minutes, 6.2 overs) | 25 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Westcott, 1.2 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Blair | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 3 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Miller | 0.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |