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| Venue | Bayly Park, Hawera on 3rd January 1898 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Canterbury won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Canterbury won by an innings and 43 runs |
| Umpires | JN Fowke (Canterbury), F Riddiford (Taranaki) |
| Scorers | S Dixon, T Mason |
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LT Cobcroft | b Bayly | 3 | |||||
| WCH Wigley | c Fowler b McCarthy | 55 | |||||
| HC Ridley | run out | 30 | |||||
| AE Ridley | b McCarthy | 23 | |||||
| D Reese | lbw b Gudgeon | 0 | |||||
| A Sims | b McCarthy | 2 | |||||
| WC Pearce | c and b Gudgeon | 17 | |||||
| F Wilding | b Bayly | 60 | |||||
| +J Wheatley | b Gudgeon | 6 | |||||
| CW Garrard | c Moore b McCarthy | 34 | |||||
| *CR Clark | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | 27 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 61 overs) | 260 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Cobcroft), 2-70 (HC Ridley), 3-116 (AE Ridley), 4-117 (Reese), 5-121 (Wigley), 6-121 (Sims), 7-155 (Pearce), 8-173 (Wheatley), 9-243 (Wilding), 10-260 (Garrard, 61 ov) | |||||||
| Taranaki bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Bayly | 20 | 2 | 51 | 2 | - | - | |
| McCarthy | 23 | 2 | 93 | 4 | - | - | |
| Pratt | 10 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gudgeon | 8 | 1 | 36 | 3 | - | - | |
| Taranaki first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WJ Crawshaw | c Cobcroft b Reese | 12 | |||||
| PM Pratt | b Pearce | 22 | |||||
| +LA Fowler | b Pearce | 2 | |||||
| FH Robertson | c Cobcroft b Reese | 10 | |||||
| FE Moore | st Wheatley b Reese | 8 | |||||
| B McCarthy | c HC Ridley b Reese | 9 | |||||
| EB Izard | c Wilding b Reese | 24 | |||||
| EG Lash | c Sims b Pearce | 0 | |||||
| HE Haggett | b Wilding | 12 | |||||
| *GT Bayly | not out | 5 | |||||
| G Gudgeon | c Pearce b Wilding | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 25.5 overs) | 108 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23 (Crawshaw), 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-108 (25.5 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reese | 13 | 2 | 52 | 5 | - | - | |
| Pearce | 11 | 1 | 50 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wilding | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Taranaki second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *GT Bayly | st Wheatley b Reese | 0 | - | - | |||
| WJ Crawshaw | b Pearce | 4 | |||||
| PM Pratt | b Cobcroft | 46 | 5 | - | |||
| FH Robertson | b Wilding | 5 | |||||
| FE Moore | b Reese | 2 | - | - | |||
| EB Izard | b Reese | 2 | - | - | |||
| B McCarthy | b Cobcroft | 33 | - | - | |||
| +LA Fowler | c Cobcroft b Reese | 4 | |||||
| EG Lash | b Reese | 2 | - | - | |||
| HE Haggett | not out | 2 | - | - | |||
| G Gudgeon | b Reese | 2 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (6 b, 1 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 31.2 overs) | 109 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-109 (31.2 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reese | 12.2 | 1 | 43 | 6 | - | - | |
| Pearce | 5 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wilding | 4 | 2 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Garrard | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cobcroft | 7 | 2 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |