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| Venue | Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st December 1955 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DD Desai, ND Nagarvala |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 218/1 (Sutcliffe 134*, Guy 44*) |
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 24/0 (Mehra 10*, Contractor 14*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (1) 187/3 (Manjrekar 30*, Kripal Singh 31*) |
| Close of play day 4 | India (1) 393/5 (Manjrekar 140*, Nadkarni 11*) |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Leggat | c Manjrekar b Gupte | 37 | 5 | - | |||
| B Sutcliffe | not out | 230 | 540 | 30 | - | ||
| JW Guy | c Mehra b Sunderam | 52 | |||||
| JR Reid | not out | 119 | 210 | 10 | 1 | ||
| SN McGregor | did not bat | ||||||
| AR MacGibbon | did not bat | ||||||
| MB Poore | did not bat | ||||||
| *HB Cave | did not bat | ||||||
| JC Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| +TG McMahon | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Hayes | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 5 lb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 176 overs) | 450 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-98 (Leggat), 2-228 (Guy) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sunderam | 39 | 5 | 99 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 38 | 11 | 82 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 39 | 10 | 98 | 1 | - | - | |
| Nadkarni | 54 | 13 | 132 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bhandari | 6 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| VL Mehra | c McMahon b Hayes | 32 | |||||
| NJ Contractor | b Reid | 62 | |||||
| *PR Umrigar | b MacGibbon | 18 | |||||
| VL Manjrekar | c McMahon b Cave | 177 | 555 | 20 | - | ||
| AG Kripal Singh | b Hayes | 36 | |||||
| GS Ramchand | st McMahon b Poore | 72 | 7 | 1 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | not out | 68 | |||||
| P Bhandari | b MacGibbon | 39 | |||||
| +NS Tamhane | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Sunderam | did not bat | ||||||
| SP Gupte | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (16 b, 4 lb, 7 nb) | 27 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 241.5 overs) | 531 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-68 (Mehra), 2-111 (Umrigar), 3-119 (Contractor), 4-208 (Kripal Singh), 5-335 (Ramchand), 6-458 (Manjrekar), 7-531 (Bhandari, 241.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacGibbon | 59.5 | 16 | 121 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cave | 50 | 28 | 68 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hayes | 44 | 9 | 105 | 2 | - | - | |
| Reid | 41 | 14 | 86 | 1 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 29 | 9 | 90 | 0 | - | - | |
| Poore | 15 | 4 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sutcliffe | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Leggat | not out | 50 | 130 | - | |||
| SN McGregor | c Tamhane b Manjrekar | 49 | |||||
| JW Guy | not out | 10 | |||||
| B Sutcliffe | did not bat | ||||||
| JR Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| AR MacGibbon | did not bat | ||||||
| MB Poore | did not bat | ||||||
| *HB Cave | did not bat | ||||||
| JC Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| +TG McMahon | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Hayes | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 58 overs) | 112 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-101 (McGregor) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sunderam | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 6 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bhandari | 7 | 2 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Manjrekar | 20 | 13 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kripal Singh | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Contractor | 6 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mehra | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Nadkarni | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |