| a10278 | |
| Venue | Molyneux Park, Alexandra on 28th December 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Auckland won by 3 wickets |
| Points | Otago 0; Auckland 2 |
| Umpires | CE King, DR Murdoch |
| Otago innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MH Richardson | run out | 11 | 9 | 11 | 1 | - | 122.22 |
| MP Maynard | c Patel b Vaughan | 40 | 46 | 59 | 7 | - | 86.96 |
| MJ Lamont | run out | 0 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MJ Horne | b Haslam | 36 | 53 | 73 | 6 | - | 67.92 |
| *RA Lawson | c Barnes b Vaughan | 63 | 95 | 127 | 2 | 2 | 66.32 |
| CB Gaffaney | c Walmsley b de Silva | 18 | 28 | 29 | - | 1 | 64.29 |
| JW Wilson | b Haslam | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +PA Campbell | st Mills b de Silva | 10 | 35 | 34 | - | - | 28.57 |
| SB O'Connor | run out | 10 | 19 | 19 | - | - | 52.63 |
| ND Morland | c Barnes b Vaughan | 3 | 6 | 8 | - | - | 50.00 |
| AJ Gale | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (3 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Richardson), 2-23 (Lamont), 3-75, 4-99, 5-126, 6-126, 7-157, 8-182, 9-199, 10-199 (49.5 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Walmsley | 6 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.67 |
| Brown | 6 | 2 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.83 |
| Vaughan | 8.5 | 0 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 17.67 | 3.74 |
| Barnes | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| Patel | 10 | 2 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.60 |
| Haslam | 10 | 2 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.60 |
| de Silva | 8 | 0 | 39 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.88 |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AC Barnes | c Lawson b Gale | 18 | 45 | 48 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| DN Patel | b O'Connor | 0 | 1 | 15 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AC Parore | c Richardson b O'Connor | 3 | 5 | 9 | - | - | 60.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Lawson b Morland | 22 | 27 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 81.48 |
| SM Lynch | c Campbell b Gale | 65 | 96 | 121 | 7 | 1 | 67.71 |
| *JTC Vaughan | run out | 51 | 78 | 105 | 4 | - | 65.38 |
| SJ Peterson | not out | 21 | 26 | 36 | 3 | - | 80.77 |
| +JM Mills | c Horne b O'Connor | 12 | 17 | 24 | 1 | - | 70.59 |
| CM Brown | not out | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | - | 60.00 |
| MJ Haslam | did not bat | ||||||
| KP Walmsley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 4 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 49.3 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Patel), 2-15 (Parore), 3-38 (Barnes), 4-46 (de Silva), 5-164 (Vaughan), 6-165 (Lynch), 7-189 (Mills) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gale | 10 | 1 | 42 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.20 |
| O'Connor | 9.3 | 0 | 44 | 3 | - | - | 19.00 | 4.63 |
| Morland | 10 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.50 |
| Horne | 10 | 1 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.90 |
| Maynard | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.33 |
| Richardson | 7 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.86 |