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| Venue | Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North on 3rd, 4th, 5th January 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Otago won by 46 runs |
| Points | Central Districts 5 (Batting 2, Bowling 3); Otago 19 (Batting 4, Bowling 5) |
| Umpires | JG Elliott, HT Stratford |
| Close of play day 1 | Central Districts (1) 68/3 (Shrimpton 17*, Ormiston 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (2) 167/2 (Campbell 55*, Lees 13*) |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Blair | c Toynbee b Thomas | 43 | |||||
| RN Stewart | lbw b Kay | 8 | |||||
| KO Campbell | b Shrimpton | 10 | |||||
| PR Facoory | c Shrimpton b Bracewell | 35 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | not out | 100 | |||||
| BL Cairns | c O'Sullivan b Kay | 38 | |||||
| BR Blair | st Edwards b O'Sullivan | 0 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | not out | 18 | |||||
| CM Kirk | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Petherick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 11 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 75 overs) | 265 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15, 2-44, 3-74, 4-178, 5-232, 6-232 | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kay | 20 | 1 | 97 | 2 | - | - |
| Thomas | 15 | 4 | 36 | 1 | - | - |
| Shrimpton | 9 | 2 | 15 | 1 | - | - |
| O'Sullivan | 22 | 4 | 73 | 1 | - | - |
| Bracewell | 9 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - |
| Central Districts first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | c Campbell b Cairns | 15 | |||||
| RW Anderson | lbw b Cairns | 33 | |||||
| *MJF Shrimpton | c Lees b Thomson | 19 | |||||
| RI Thomas | b Cairns | 0 | |||||
| RW Ormiston | b Cairns | 7 | |||||
| +GN Edwards | c WL Blair b Cairns | 32 | |||||
| GJ Langridge | lbw b Petherick | 24 | |||||
| MH Toynbee | not out | 37 | |||||
| DW Bracewell | c Lees b Kirk | 8 | |||||
| DR O'Sullivan | c Campbell b Petherick | 5 | |||||
| DJ Kay | run out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 3 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 60.6 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-68, 3-68, 4-78, 5-84, 6-120, 7-144, 8-177, 9-190, 10-197 (60.6 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Thomson | 12 | 3 | 53 | 1 | - | - |
| Cairns | 24 | 8 | 61 | 5 | - | - |
| McKechnie | 9 | 3 | 24 | 0 | - | - |
| Petherick | 11.6 | 5 | 29 | 2 | - | - |
| Kirk | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Blair | c Shrimpton b Kay | 25 | |||||
| RN Stewart | st Edwards b O'Sullivan | 65 | |||||
| KO Campbell | not out | 101 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | not out | 45 | |||||
| PR Facoory | did not bat | ||||||
| BL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| BR Blair | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| CM Kirk | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Petherick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 b, 6 lb, 2 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 71.3 overs) | 254 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36, 2-144 | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kay | 20 | 5 | 50 | 1 | - | - |
| Thomas | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - |
| Shrimpton | 16 | 2 | 68 | 0 | - | - |
| O'Sullivan | 17.3 | 4 | 50 | 1 | - | - |
| Bracewell | 15 | 1 | 52 | 0 | - | - |
| Toynbee | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - |
| Central Districts second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | c Lees b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| RW Anderson | c Cairns b Thomson | 29 | |||||
| *MJF Shrimpton | b Thomson | 3 | |||||
| RW Ormiston | c Stewart b Cairns | 0 | |||||
| +GN Edwards | c Lees b Kirk | 115 | |||||
| GJ Langridge | lbw b Petherick | 9 | |||||
| MH Toynbee | c Cairns b Kirk | 16 | |||||
| DW Bracewell | c Campbell b Petherick | 13 | |||||
| DR O'Sullivan | not out | 70 | |||||
| DJ Kay | c WL Blair b Cairns | 15 | |||||
| RI Thomas | c Stewart b Petherick | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50.2 overs) | 276 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-22, 3-33, 4-33, 5-89, 6-173, 7-176, 8-200, 9-243, 10-276 (50.2 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Thomson | 10 | 2 | 50 | 3 | - | - |
| Cairns | 18 | 3 | 80 | 2 | - | - |
| McKechnie | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - |
| Petherick | 12.2 | 2 | 81 | 3 | - | - |
| Kirk | 7 | 3 | 33 | 2 | - | - |