| a2855 | |
| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 4th January 1981 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Wellington won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 4 wickets |
| Points | Wellington 0; Auckland 4 |
| Umpires | SC Cowman, MS Phipps |
| Player of the Match | AEW Parsons |
| Wellington innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GA Newdick | b Cushen | 17 | |||||
| EJ Gray | c Wiltshire b Ackland | 39 | |||||
| BR Taylor | c Scott b McIntyre | 25 | |||||
| *JFM Morrison | c and b Cushen | 37 | |||||
| +RH Vance | c Cushen b McIntyre | 14 | |||||
| RB Reid | run out | 3 | |||||
| SB Cater | b Stott | 37 | |||||
| PJ Holland | lbw b Crowe | 4 | |||||
| DF Oakley | not out | 6 | |||||
| BW Cederwall | lbw b Crowe | 3 | |||||
| PJ Petherick | c Parsons b Stott | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 13 lb, 2 nb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 204 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47, 2-80, 3-103, 4-137, 5-145, 6-148, 7-177, 8-194, 9-199, 10-204 (50 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Stott | 10 | 4 | 18 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 1.80 |
| Linn | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.17 |
| Aitken | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Cushen | 9 | 0 | 61 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 6.78 |
| Crowe | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.50 |
| McIntyre | 10 | 4 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 1.10 |
| Ackland | 9 | 1 | 54 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 6.00 |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AEW Parsons | c Vance b Cederwall | 91 | |||||
| *JR Wiltshire | run out | 29 | |||||
| MD Crowe | lbw b Morrison | 13 | |||||
| PN Webb | run out | 2 | |||||
| RA Aitken | c Gray b Holland | 54 | |||||
| WS Linn | lbw b Cederwall | 0 | |||||
| JM McIntyre | not out | 13 | |||||
| LW Stott | not out | 0 | |||||
| +NA Scott | did not bat | ||||||
| JAJ Cushen | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Ackland | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 48.4 overs) | 208 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-68, 2-87, 3-97, 4-179, 5-190, 6-204 | |||||||
| Wellington bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Taylor | 10 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 |
| Holland | 8.4 | 1 | 47 | 1 | - | - | 52.00 | 5.42 |
| Cederwall | 9 | 0 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.89 |
| Cater | 10 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.80 |
| Morrison | 8 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.75 |
| Petherick | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |