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| Venue | County Ground, Taunton on 12th, 13th, 14th May 1973 (3-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Match drawn | 
| Umpires | AEG Rhodes, H Yarnold | 
| Close of play day 1 | Somerset (1) 18/1 (Wilkinson 12*, Rose 5*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (2) 19/0 (Turner 10*, Redmond 8*) | 
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Turner | c Wilkinson b Burgess | 81 | |||||
| RE Redmond | lbw b Burgess | 33 | |||||
| JM Parker | c Kitchen b Breakwell | 106 | |||||
| *BE Congdon | c Kitchen b Burgess | 1 | |||||
| BF Hastings | not out | 85 | |||||
| RW Anderson | not out | 20 | |||||
| +KJ Wadsworth | did not bat | ||||||
| BR Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| EK Gillott | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 4 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 94 overs) | 335 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-64, 2-161, 3-170, 4-272 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Jones | 18 | 3 | 75 | 0 | - | - | |
| Moseley | 20 | 2 | 79 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cartwright | 22 | 9 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Burgess | 24 | 4 | 90 | 3 | - | - | |
| Breakwell | 10 | 2 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Kitchen | c Turner b Taylor | 1 | |||||
| SG Wilkinson | c Turner b Taylor | 27 | |||||
| BC Rose | lbw b Taylor | 15 | |||||
| *DB Close | c Hastings b Taylor | 26 | |||||
| +JM Parks | lbw b Hadlee | 68 | |||||
| PW Denning | not out | 85 | |||||
| GI Burgess | c Parker b Gillott | 7 | |||||
| TW Cartwright | b Gillott | 2 | |||||
| D Breakwell | c Wadsworth b Taylor | 3 | |||||
| HR Moseley | st Wadsworth b Gillott | 9 | |||||
| AA Jones | b Gillott | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 75.5 overs) | 251 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-36, 3-65, 4-78, 5-198, 6-217, 7-231, 8-234, 9-247, 10-251 (75.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hadlee | 20 | 1 | 85 | 1 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 19 | 5 | 37 | 5 | - | - | |
| Congdon | 12 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 13 | 1 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gillott | 11.5 | 1 | 46 | 4 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Turner | c Parks b Moseley | 13 | |||||
| RE Redmond | lbw b Moseley | 11 | |||||
| JM Parker | c Parks b Breakwell | 19 | |||||
| *BE Congdon | not out | 28 | |||||
| RW Anderson | lbw b Cartwright | 28 | |||||
| BF Hastings | not out | 21 | |||||
| +KJ Wadsworth | did not bat | ||||||
| BR Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| EK Gillott | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 5 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 58 overs) | 130 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23, 2-28, 3-52, 4-91 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Jones | 15 | 6 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Moseley | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cartwright | 16 | 7 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Burgess | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Breakwell | 14 | 3 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |