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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 3rd, 4th, 5th January 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 4 runs |
| Points | Auckland 18 (Batting 3, Bowling 5); Wellington 5 (Batting 1, Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | WD Holmes, S Sukias |
| Close of play day 1 | Wellington (1) 40/2 (Edgar 17*, Coney 2*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Auckland (2) 113/4 (Arblaster 3*, Reid 10*) |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | run out | 49 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | c Kean b Chatfield | 1 | |||||
| MG Burgess | c Kean b Chatfield | 7 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | c Coney b Cederwall | 0 | |||||
| RG Arblaster | c Coney b Cederwall | 0 | |||||
| +JF Reid | c Morrison b Cederwall | 4 | |||||
| JR Wiltshire | not out | 100 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | c Coney b Chatfield | 29 | |||||
| LW Stott | lbw b Morgan | 7 | |||||
| GB Troup | not out | 21 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 12 lb, 2 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 75 overs) | 236 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-26, 3-27, 4-27, 5-47, 6-73, 7-139, 8-163 | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Chatfield | 27 | 6 | 82 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cederwall | 27 | 5 | 74 | 3 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 10 | 3 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gray | 9 | 2 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morrison | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wellington first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Newdick | b Cushen | 8 | |||||
| BA Edgar | c Reid b Cushen | 24 | |||||
| JFM Morrison | lbw b Stott | 8 | |||||
| *JV Coney | lbw b Stott | 17 | |||||
| DML Airey | run out | 33 | |||||
| RJ Kean | b McIntyre | 32 | |||||
| HA Morgan | c Stott b McIntyre | 2 | |||||
| +RH Vance | lbw b Troup | 0 | |||||
| BW Cederwall | b Troup | 5 | |||||
| EJ Gray | not out | 2 | |||||
| EJ Chatfield | c Burgess b McIntyre | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 69.4 overs) | 136 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15, 2-34, 3-59, 4-59, 5-124, 6-126, 7-126, 8-126, 9-133, 10-136 (69.4 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 15 | 5 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 22 | 7 | 51 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stott | 15 | 4 | 32 | 2 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 17.4 | 9 | 19 | 3 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | c Coney b Morrison | 40 | |||||
| RJ Kasper | c Morrison b Chatfield | 1 | |||||
| MG Burgess | b Morrison | 46 | |||||
| *GE Vivian | c Kean b Morrison | 2 | |||||
| RG Arblaster | b Morrison | 14 | |||||
| +JF Reid | c sub b Morrison | 34 | |||||
| JR Wiltshire | not out | 38 | |||||
| GB Troup | c Kean b Morgan | 4 | |||||
| LW Stott | not out | 1 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 b, 6 lb, 1 nb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 51.5 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-82, 3-89, 4-96, 5-141, 6-166, 7-178 | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Chatfield | 7 | 0 | 23 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cederwall | 7 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 19 | 5 | 58 | 1 | - | - | |
| Morrison | 18.5 | 2 | 69 | 5 | - | - | |
| Wellington second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Newdick | lbw b McIntyre | 9 | |||||
| BA Edgar | c and b Stott | 70 | |||||
| JFM Morrison | c Reid b Stott | 106 | |||||
| *JV Coney | c Parsons b Stott | 32 | |||||
| HA Morgan | b Stott | 2 | |||||
| DML Airey | st Reid b McIntyre | 22 | |||||
| RJ Kean | c Burgess b McIntyre | 8 | |||||
| BW Cederwall | b Vivian | 6 | |||||
| +RH Vance | run out | 23 | |||||
| EJ Gray | c Stott b McIntyre | 7 | |||||
| EJ Chatfield | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 74.7 overs) | 293 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37, 2-133, 3-207, 4-216, 5-237, 6-251, 7-258, 8-264, 9-292, 10-293 (74.7 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 10 | 2 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 5 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stott | 23 | 4 | 86 | 4 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 32.7 | 7 | 92 | 4 | - | - | |
| Vivian | 4 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |