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| Venue | County Ground, Taunton on 1st, 2nd, 3rd July 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Somerset won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DGL Evans, BJ Meyer |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealanders (1) 25/0 (Anderson 8*, Edgar 12*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (1) 218/8 (McIntyre 2*, Bracewell 0*) |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *BC Rose | b Congdon | 49 | |||||
| PW Denning | c Edwards b Hadlee | 24 | |||||
| PA Slocombe | lbw b Congdon | 1 | |||||
| PM Roebuck | not out | 131 | |||||
| VJ Marks | run out | 23 | |||||
| M Olive | c Congdon b Bracewell | 3 | |||||
| D Breakwell | not out | 100 | |||||
| DJS Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| KF Jennings | did not bat | ||||||
| CH Dredge | did not bat | ||||||
| +T Gard | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 11 lb, 3 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 92 overs) | 349 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63, 2-64, 3-89, 4-148, 5-162 | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bracewell | 19 | 2 | 80 | 1 | - | - |
| Thomson | 17 | 3 | 63 | 0 | - | - |
| Hadlee | 16 | 0 | 70 | 1 | - | - |
| Congdon | 22 | 5 | 50 | 2 | - | - |
| McIntyre | 18 | 4 | 68 | 0 | - | - |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | c Denning b Breakwell | 40 | |||||
| BA Edgar | c Gard b Breakwell | 81 | |||||
| JM Parker | c Slocombe b Breakwell | 5 | |||||
| *MG Burgess | run out | 0 | |||||
| BE Congdon | b Marks | 38 | |||||
| JG Wright | b Dredge | 13 | |||||
| +GN Edwards | c Rose b Jennings | 25 | |||||
| DR Hadlee | b Jennings | 8 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | not out | 2 | |||||
| BP Bracewell | not out | 0 | |||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 2 lb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 95 overs) | 218 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-66, 2-83, 3-87, 4-170, 5-176, 6-208, 7-208, 8-218 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Dredge | 15 | 3 | 29 | 1 | - | - |
| Jennings | 15 | 4 | 30 | 2 | - | - |
| Marks | 31 | 10 | 71 | 1 | - | - |
| Breakwell | 31 | 7 | 64 | 3 | - | - |
| Rose | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - |
| Roebuck | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - |
| Somerset second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PW Denning | c Congdon b McIntyre | 38 | |||||
| M Olive | lbw b Bracewell | 1 | |||||
| PA Slocombe | b Thomson | 8 | |||||
| VJ Marks | b McIntyre | 31 | |||||
| DJS Taylor | c Anderson b Congdon | 11 | |||||
| PM Roebuck | not out | 23 | |||||
| *BC Rose | c Burgess b McIntyre | 16 | |||||
| D Breakwell | not out | 12 | |||||
| KF Jennings | did not bat | ||||||
| CH Dredge | did not bat | ||||||
| +T Gard | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 55 overs) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-34, 3-77, 4-86, 5-94, 6-119 | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bracewell | 8 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - |
| Thomson | 10 | 3 | 34 | 1 | - | - |
| Congdon | 20 | 5 | 47 | 1 | - | - |
| McIntyre | 17 | 6 | 40 | 3 | - | - |
| New Zealanders second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | not out | 37 | |||||
| BA Edgar | not out | 54 | |||||
| JM Parker | did not bat | ||||||
| *MG Burgess | did not bat | ||||||
| BE Congdon | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| +GN Edwards | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| BP Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 34 overs) | 93 | |||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Dredge | 9 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - |
| Jennings | 5 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - |
| Marks | 8 | 2 | 20 | 0 | - | - |
| Breakwell | 12 | 4 | 22 | 0 | - | - |