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| Venue | The Recreation Ground, Torquay on 2nd, 3rd August 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Minor Counties won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Minor Counties won by 3 wickets |
| Umpires | PJ Eele, TW Higginson |
| Close of play day 1 | Minor Counties (1) 45/1 (Nurton 9*, Gill 32*) |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | run out | 55 | |||||
| +BA Edgar | c Dunstan b Collins | 44 | |||||
| GP Howarth | c Nurton b Collins | 1 | |||||
| *JM Parker | not out | 12 | |||||
| GN Edwards | did not bat | ||||||
| BE Congdon | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| RO Collinge | did not bat | ||||||
| BP Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, declared, 47 overs) | 117 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-75, 2-86, 3-117 (47 ov) | |||||||
| Minor Counties bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Wilkinson | 11 | 6 | 10 | 0 | - | - |
| Collins | 17 | 4 | 51 | 2 | - | - |
| O'Brien | 8 | 3 | 22 | 0 | - | - |
| Ikin | 10 | 1 | 29 | 0 | - | - |
| Kippax | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
| Minor Counties first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MD Nurton | not out | 28 | |||||
| SR Atkinson | c Edgar b Bracewell | 1 | |||||
| PN Gill | st Edgar b Howarth | 49 | |||||
| *D Bailey | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Kippax | did not bat | ||||||
| MST Dunstan | did not bat | ||||||
| NT O'Brien | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Ikin | did not bat | ||||||
| +FE Collyer | did not bat | ||||||
| BG Collins | did not bat | ||||||
| JS Wilkinson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 31.3 overs) | 82 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-82 (31.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bracewell | 5 | 3 | 19 | 1 | - | - |
| Collinge | 10 | 2 | 21 | 0 | - | - |
| Thomson | 8 | 1 | 19 | 0 | - | - |
| McIntyre | 6 | 3 | 8 | 0 | - | - |
| Howarth | 2.3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | - |
| New Zealanders second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RW Anderson | c Collyer b Ikin | 35 | |||||
| GN Edwards | lbw b Ikin | 46 | |||||
| *JM Parker | c Gill b Ikin | 31 | |||||
| BE Congdon | not out | 42 | |||||
| +BA Edgar | not out | 14 | 55 | ||||
| GP Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| JM McIntyre | did not bat | ||||||
| RO Collinge | did not bat | ||||||
| BP Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, declared, 63 overs) | 175 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-75, 2-86, 3-131 | |||||||
| Minor Counties bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Wilkinson | 8 | 2 | 28 | 0 | - | - |
| Collins | 7 | 2 | 31 | 0 | - | - |
| O'Brien | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - |
| Ikin | 24 | 6 | 46 | 3 | - | - |
| Kippax | 20 | 7 | 39 | 0 | - | - |
| Minor Counties second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MD Nurton | c Bracewell b Congdon | 31 | |||||
| SR Atkinson | c Howarth b Collinge | 1 | |||||
| PN Gill | c Howarth b Collinge | 8 | |||||
| *D Bailey | c Bracewell b McIntyre | 38 | |||||
| PJ Kippax | c Congdon b Howarth | 25 | |||||
| MST Dunstan | c and b Congdon | 10 | |||||
| NT O'Brien | b McIntyre | 7 | |||||
| MJ Ikin | not out | 39 | |||||
| +FE Collyer | not out | 35 | |||||
| BG Collins | did not bat | ||||||
| JS Wilkinson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 13 lb, 1 nb) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 52.4 overs) | 214 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Atkinson), 2-26 (Gill), 3-85, 4-89, 5-105, 6-122, 7-145 | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bracewell | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - |
| Collinge | 8 | 2 | 24 | 2 | - | - |
| Congdon | 12 | 3 | 35 | 2 | - | - |
| Boock | 11 | 2 | 34 | 0 | - | - |
| McIntyre | 12.4 | 1 | 59 | 2 | - | - |
| Howarth | 5 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - |