| a1079 | |
| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 16th December 1973 (35-over match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Wellington won by 1 wicket |
| Umpires | RJ Bundle, SA Thorburn |
| Player of the Match | HA Morgan |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JD Riley | lbw b Collinge | 0 | |||||
| TW Jarvis | run out | 25 | |||||
| GP Howarth | lbw b Morgan | 21 | |||||
| *MG Burgess | c Bilby b BD Smith | 19 | |||||
| AEW Parsons | b Morgan | 51 | |||||
| RW Morgan | not out | 80 | |||||
| +RA Dykes | b Morgan | 1 | |||||
| AR Hounsell | c Chatfield b Collinge | 2 | |||||
| RS Cunis | not out | 0 | |||||
| RE Sutton | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 8 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 35 overs) | 209 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-47, 3-61, 4-79, 5-183, 6-201, 7-208 | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Collinge | 7 | 1 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 28.00 | 3.00 |
| Taylor | 7 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Morgan | 7 | 1 | 55 | 3 | - | - | 18.67 | 7.86 |
| Chatfield | 7 | 1 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| BD Smith | 5 | 0 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 40.00 | 6.80 |
| McGregor | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.50 |
| Wellington innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GA Newdick | c Riley b HJ Howarth | 25 | |||||
| BJ Middleton | c Dykes b Sutton | 15 | |||||
| HA Morgan | c and b HJ Howarth | 46 | |||||
| RW Smith | run out | 1 | |||||
| GP Bilby | c Dykes b Hounsell | 10 | |||||
| *BR Taylor | c Burgess b Hounsell | 32 | |||||
| BD Smith | c Dykes b Cunis | 12 | |||||
| +IJ Therkleson | c Dykes b Hounsell | 10 | |||||
| PB McGregor | not out | 26 | |||||
| RO Collinge | c Dykes b Hounsell | 0 | |||||
| EJ Chatfield | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (20 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 34 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44, 2-74, 3-95, 4-104, 5-154, 6-154, 7-176, 8-179, 9-186 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Sutton | 7 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 56.00 | 3.71 |
| Cunis | 7 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 56.00 | 5.14 |
| HJ Howarth | 7 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 28.00 | 4.71 |
| Morgan | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.43 |
| Hounsell | 6 | 0 | 50 | 4 | - | - | 12.00 | 8.33 |