| a629 | |
| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 12th December 1971 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Wellington won by 186 runs |
| Umpires | WT Martin, RL Monteith |
| Player of the Match | BR Taylor |
| Wellington innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AE Dick | b Williams | 39 | |||||
| GA Newdick | c Howarth b Williams | 56 | |||||
| *BE Congdon | run out | 66 | |||||
| BW Sinclair | b McIntyre | 9 | |||||
| JD Riley | st Dykes b Howarth | 38 | |||||
| BR Taylor | not out | 46 | |||||
| BD Smith | c Jarvis b Maingay | 7 | |||||
| +IJ Therkleson | not out | 12 | |||||
| RO Collinge | did not bat | ||||||
| WA Greenstreet | did not bat | ||||||
| GT McConnell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs) | 278 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-84, 2-95, 3-120, 4-198, 5-211, 6-246 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Smith | 8 | 0 | 51 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.38 |
| Williams | 8 | 0 | 34 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 4.25 |
| Howarth | 8 | 0 | 64 | 1 | - | - | 64.00 | 8.00 |
| McIntyre | 5 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 40.00 | 6.00 |
| Maingay | 4 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 32.00 | 10.50 |
| Morgan | 7 | 0 | 52 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.43 |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RE Redmond | b Taylor | 4 | |||||
| TW Jarvis | run out | 9 | |||||
| *RW Morgan | c Therkleson b Taylor | 2 | |||||
| GE Vivian | b Greenstreet | 9 | |||||
| WR Fenton | c Congdon b Greenstreet | 21 | |||||
| +RA Dykes | st Therkleson b McConnell | 0 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | c Congdon b McConnell | 1 | |||||
| CT Maingay | lbw b Greenstreet | 1 | |||||
| HJ Howarth | run out | 0 | |||||
| NGS Smith | b Congdon | 38 | |||||
| JC Williams | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.3 overs) | 92 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-15, 3-17, 4-27, 5-30, 6-34, 7-39, 8-40, 9-88, 10-92 (32.3 ov) | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Collinge | 8 | 2 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.25 |
| Taylor | 8 | 0 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 2.75 |
| McConnell | 8 | 3 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 2.00 |
| Greenstreet | 8 | 2 | 27 | 3 | - | - | 21.33 | 3.38 |
| Congdon | 0.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3.00 | 5.33 |