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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 5th, 6th, 7th March 1976 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 6 wickets |
| Points | Auckland 20 (Batting 5, Bowling 5); Otago 5 (Batting 3, Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | JW Corner, S Sukias |
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 164/1 (Redmond 77*, Jarvis 42*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (2) 176/7 (Alabaster 8*, DEC McKechnie 0*) |
| Player of the Match | MG Burgess |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | c Jarvis b Burgess | 19 | 51 | ||||
| BJ McKechnie | c Reid b Troup | 42 | 126 | ||||
| RW Anderson | c Reid b Stott | 16 | 15 | ||||
| HC Sampson | b Troup | 35 | 68 | ||||
| KO Campbell | b McIntyre | 0 | 14 | ||||
| +WK Lees | c Reid b Stott | 10 | 40 | ||||
| LG McAlevey | b McIntyre | 48 | 116 | ||||
| *GD Alabaster | c Riley b McIntyre | 20 | 60 | ||||
| DEC McKechnie | c Parsons b McIntyre | 0 | 1 | ||||
| GB Thomson | c Riley b McIntyre | 19 | 9 | ||||
| PJ Petherick | not out | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 3 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 60.4 overs) | 215 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-50, 2-71, 3-109, 4-116, 5-116, 6-143, 7-181, 8-181, 9-205, 10-215 (60.4 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 16 | 4 | 59 | 2 | - | 3 | |
| Stott | 15 | 2 | 49 | 2 | - | - | |
| Burgess | 5 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 14.4 | 4 | 54 | 5 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 10 | 3 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JD Riley | c Alabaster b Petherick | 40 | 96 | ||||
| RE Redmond | st Lees b DEC McKechnie | 103 | 216 | ||||
| TW Jarvis | c Anderson b DEC McKechnie | 59 | 137 | ||||
| MG Burgess | not out | 103 | 149 | ||||
| AEW Parsons | lbw b DEC McKechnie | 0 | 2 | ||||
| RW Morgan | c Lees b Thomson | 2 | 8 | ||||
| +JF Reid | b BJ McKechnie | 37 | 106 | ||||
| GB Troup | not out | 6 | 12 | ||||
| *HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| LW Stott | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 7 lb, 2 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 88 overs) | 362 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-80, 2-209, 3-220, 4-220, 5-227, 6-337 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 20 | 0 | 78 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| BJ McKechnie | 19 | 2 | 91 | 1 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 15 | 1 | 60 | 1 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 15 | 2 | 72 | 0 | - | - | |
| DEC McKechnie | 19 | 4 | 49 | 3 | - | - | |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | c Burgess b Troup | 80 | 191 | ||||
| BJ McKechnie | hit wkt b McIntyre | 30 | 67 | ||||
| RW Anderson | st Reid b McIntyre | 16 | 31 | ||||
| HC Sampson | c Riley b Howarth | 12 | 49 | ||||
| KO Campbell | c and b Howarth | 18 | 35 | ||||
| +WK Lees | st Reid b Howarth | 0 | 9 | ||||
| LG McAlevey | c Reid b Troup | 0 | 8 | ||||
| *GD Alabaster | c Riley b McIntyre | 20 | 69 | ||||
| DEC McKechnie | b McIntyre | 21 | 47 | ||||
| GB Thomson | c and b Howarth | 3 | 20 | ||||
| PJ Petherick | not out | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Extras | (6 b, 9 lb, 1 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.2 overs) | 216 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57, 2-87, 3-128, 4-164, 5-168, 6-168, 7-168, 8-212, 9-215, 10-216 (68.2 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 15 | 2 | 50 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stott | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 15 | 5 | 36 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Howarth | 26.2 | 9 | 57 | 4 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 8 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JD Riley | b Petherick | 4 | 10 | ||||
| RE Redmond | run out | 22 | 46 | ||||
| TW Jarvis | b DEC McKechnie | 21 | 27 | ||||
| MG Burgess | not out | 13 | 22 | ||||
| AEW Parsons | st Lees b Petherick | 2 | 11 | ||||
| RW Morgan | not out | 4 | 2 | ||||
| +JF Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| *HJ Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| LW Stott | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 19 overs) | 72 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-44, 3-53, 4-68 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| BJ McKechnie | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 9 | 0 | 41 | 2 | - | - | |
| DEC McKechnie | 8 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |