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| Venue | Molyneux Park, Alexandra on 31st December 1979, 1st, 2nd January 1980 (3-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Match drawn | 
| Points | Otago 8 (Batting 4, Bowling 4); Auckland -1 (Bowling 1, slow over-rate -2) | 
| Umpires | D Cummings, NF Tapper | 
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 25/0 (Parsons 6*, Webb 19*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | Auckland (2) 127/6 (Stott 11*, McIntyre 12*) | 
| Player of the Match | GM Turner | 
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Turner | lbw b Stott | 136 | |||||
| SJ McCullum | c Reid b Stott | 26 | |||||
| IA Rutherford | c Arblaster b Troup | 29 | |||||
| WL Blair | not out | 82 | |||||
| BR Blair | run out | 26 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | not out | 12 | |||||
| BL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| TD Sutherland | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 9 lb, 1 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 325 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-65, 2-133, 3-234, 4-303 | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 19 | 1 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cushen | 14 | 4 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stott | 30 | 9 | 85 | 2 | - | - | |
| McIntyre | 18 | 2 | 70 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rewcastle | 19 | 3 | 53 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | c WL Blair b Thomson | 9 | |||||
| PN Webb | c Boock b Bracewell | 57 | |||||
| +JF Reid | c Rutherford b Boock | 8 | |||||
| *JR Wiltshire | c and b Boock | 19 | |||||
| RG Arblaster | lbw b Bracewell | 11 | |||||
| LJ Rewcastle | c BR Blair b Boock | 14 | |||||
| LW Stott | c Cairns b Bracewell | 2 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | c McCullum b Bracewell | 5 | |||||
| GB Troup | c WL Blair b Bracewell | 5 | |||||
| JAJ Cushen | not out | 0 | |||||
| RC Hooton | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 85.2 overs) | 135 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34, 2-51, 3-97, 4-97, 5-111, 6-115, 7-126, 8-135, 9-135 (85.2 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 17 | 6 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 17 | 5 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Boock | 31.2 | 17 | 41 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 20 | 13 | 16 | 5 | - | - | |
| Auckland second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | lbw b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| PN Webb | c Turner b Cairns | 24 | |||||
| +JF Reid | c Turner b Bracewell | 12 | |||||
| *JR Wiltshire | c Turner b Boock | 26 | |||||
| RG Arblaster | lbw b Bracewell | 18 | |||||
| LJ Rewcastle | b Bracewell | 6 | |||||
| LW Stott | not out | 29 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | not out | 27 | |||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| RC Hooton | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 8 lb, 12 nb) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 83 overs) | 164 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-38, 3-59, 4-85, 5-93, 6-97 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 16 | 8 | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| Boock | 29 | 19 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 30 | 11 | 65 | 3 | - | - | |
| BR Blair | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |