| f4821 | |
| Venue | Recreation Ground, Napier on 21st, 22nd, 23rd December 1897 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Hawke's Bay won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Canterbury won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | H Martin, Whyte |
| Close of play day 1 | Hawke's Bay (1) 249 all out |
| Close of play day 2 | Canterbury (1) 61/1 (Cobcroft 14*, Reese 5*) |
| Hawke's Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Wolstenholme | b Reese | 0 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | b Pearce | 119 | |||||
| FM Nelson | b Pearce | 27 | |||||
| G Marshall | c Wheatley b Garrard | 30 | |||||
| WAJ Gibson | b Pearce | 6 | |||||
| CH Cato | b Pearce | 1 | |||||
| TW Lewis | b Cobcroft | 31 | |||||
| HC Wilson | not out | 11 | |||||
| HA Fannin | c Clark b Reese | 10 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | c Ridley b Cobcroft | 2 | |||||
| +A Martin | b Reese | 2 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 68.1 overs) | 249 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Wolstenholme), 2-57 (Nelson), 3-126 (Marshall), 4-135 (Gibson), 5-145 (Cato), 6-216 (Lusk), 7-220 (Lewis), 8-? (Fannin), 9-? (Hughes), 10-249 (Martin, 68.1 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reese | 15.1 | 3 | 54 | 3 | - | - | |
| Pearce | 27 | 9 | 47 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wilding | 8 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | |
| Clark | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Garrard | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cobcroft | 7 | 0 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LT Cobcroft | c Wolstenholme b Hughes | 14 | |||||
| WCH Wigley | c Martin b Lusk | 32 | |||||
| D Reese | c Cato b Lusk | 18 | |||||
| AE Ridley | c Wilson b Fannin | 55 | |||||
| WC Pearce | lbw b Fannin | 18 | |||||
| F Wilding | lbw b Wilson | 3 | |||||
| A Sims | lbw b Fannin | 8 | |||||
| CW Garrard | b Wilson | 10 | |||||
| J Wheatley | b Fannin | 12 | |||||
| *CR Clark | not out | 18 | |||||
| +JN Fowke | b Fannin | 4 | |||||
| Extras | 25 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 88.2 overs) | 217 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Wigley), 2-61 (Cobcroft), 3-? (Reese), 4-152 (Pearce), 5-? (Wilding), 6-? (Ridley), 7-? (Sims), 8-177 (Garrard), 9-197 (Wheatley), 10-217 (Fowke, 88.2 ov) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fannin | 31.2 | 10 | 67 | 5 | - | - | |
| Hughes | 17 | 7 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wilson | 21 | 10 | 33 | 2 | - | - | |
| Lusk | 19 | 6 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hawke's Bay second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Wolstenholme | run out | 0 | |||||
| *HB Lusk | c Wigley b Reese | 0 | |||||
| FM Nelson | c Sims b Pearce | 2 | |||||
| HA Fannin | b Pearce | 4 | |||||
| TW Lewis | b Pearce | 6 | |||||
| G Marshall | b Reese | 16 | |||||
| HC Wilson | b Reese | 3 | |||||
| CH Cato | b Pearce | 3 | |||||
| WAJ Gibson | c Ridley b Pearce | 0 | |||||
| WJ Hughes | not out | 3 | |||||
| +A Martin | c Clark b Reese | 3 | |||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 27 overs) | 42 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Lusk), 2-2 (Nelson), 3-8 (Fannin), 4-8 (Wolstenholme), 5-19 (Lewis), 6-31 (Marshall), 7-36 (Cato), 8-36 (Gibson), 9-36 (Wilson), 10-42 (Martin, 27 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reese | 14 | 7 | 20 | 4 | - | - | |
| Pearce | 13 | 6 | 20 | 5 | - | - | |
| Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LT Cobcroft | c Fannin b Hughes | 21 | |||||
| WCH Wigley | b Fannin | 1 | |||||
| D Reese | b Hughes | 23 | |||||
| AE Ridley | not out | 22 | |||||
| WC Pearce | lbw b Hughes | 0 | |||||
| A Sims | c Wolstenholme b Hughes | 3 | |||||
| F Wilding | not out | 3 | |||||
| CW Garrard | did not bat | ||||||
| J Wheatley | did not bat | ||||||
| *CR Clark | did not bat | ||||||
| +JN Fowke | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 21 overs) | 75 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Wigley), 2-33 (Cobcroft), 3-52 (Reese), 4-52 (Pearce), 5-62 (Sims) | |||||||
| Hawke's Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fannin | 8 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hughes | 7 | 1 | 17 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wilson | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lusk | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |