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| Venue | Nehru Stadium, Madras on 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th January 1956 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by an innings and 109 runs |
| Umpires | AR Joshi, MG Vijayasarathi |
| Close of play day 1 | India (1) 234/0 (Mankad 109*, Roy 114*) |
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 537/3 (Umrigar 79*, Manjrekar 0*) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (1) 158/6 (Poore 6*, Moir 6*) |
| Close of play day 4 | New Zealand (2) 114/1 (Leggat 61*, Guy 8*) |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MH Mankad | c Cave b Moir | 231 | 525 | 21 | - | ||
| P Roy | b Poore | 173 | 472 | 12 | - | ||
| *PR Umrigar | not out | 79 | |||||
| GS Ramchand | lbw b MacGibbon | 21 | |||||
| VL Manjrekar | not out | 0 | |||||
| AG Kripal Singh | did not bat | ||||||
| NJ Contractor | did not bat | ||||||
| DG Phadkar | did not bat | ||||||
| +NS Tamhane | did not bat | ||||||
| JM Patel | did not bat | ||||||
| SP Gupte | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (18 b, 11 lb, 4 nb) | 33 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, declared, 177 overs) | 537 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-413 (Roy), 2-449 (Mankad), 3-537 (Ramchand) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hayes | 31 | 2 | 94 | 0 | - | - | |
| MacGibbon | 38 | 9 | 97 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cave | 44 | 16 | 94 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reid | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Moir | 26 | 1 | 114 | 1 | - | - | |
| Poore | 31 | 5 | 95 | 1 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Leggat | lbw b Phadkar | 31 | |||||
| B Sutcliffe | c Umrigar b Patel | 47 | 204 | 4 | - | ||
| JR Reid | b Patel | 44 | 7 | - | |||
| JW Guy | c Umrigar b Gupte | 3 | |||||
| SN McGregor | c Phadkar b Gupte | 10 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | c Phadkar b Gupte | 0 | |||||
| MB Poore | lbw b Gupte | 15 | |||||
| AM Moir | c Umrigar b Patel | 30 | 5 | - | |||
| *HB Cave | c Roy b Gupte | 9 | |||||
| +TG McMahon | not out | 4 | |||||
| JA Hayes | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 10 lb, 2 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 132 overs) | 209 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-75 (Leggat), 2-109 (Sutcliffe), 3-121 (Guy), 4-141 (Reid), 5-144 (MacGibbon), 6-145 (McGregor), 7-190 (Moir), 8-201 (Poore), 9-209 (Cave, 132 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Phadkar | 15 | 4 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 49 | 26 | 72 | 5 | - | - | |
| Patel | 45 | 23 | 63 | 3 | - | - | |
| Mankad | 19 | 10 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Leggat | c Tamhane b Mankad | 61 | |||||
| B Sutcliffe | c and b Gupte | 40 | |||||
| JW Guy | st Tamhane b Gupte | 9 | |||||
| JR Reid | c Umrigar b Gupte | 63 | 178 | 6 | - | ||
| MB Poore | b Mankad | 1 | |||||
| SN McGregor | c Gupte b Mankad | 12 | |||||
| AR MacGibbon | lbw b Patel | 0 | |||||
| AM Moir | c Ramchand b Mankad | 1 | |||||
| *HB Cave | not out | 22 | |||||
| +TG McMahon | b Gupte | 0 | |||||
| JA Hayes | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 130.3 overs) | 219 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-89 (Sutcliffe), 2-114 (Leggat), 3-116 (Guy), 4-117 (Poore), 5-147 (McGregor), 6-148 (MacGibbon), 7-151 (Moir), 8-219 (Reid), 9-219 (McMahon, 130.3 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Phadkar | 28 | 13 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 8 | 5 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 36.3 | 14 | 73 | 4 | - | - | |
| Patel | 18 | 7 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mankad | 40 | 14 | 65 | 4 | - | - | |