| a10295 | |
| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 5th January 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Auckland won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Auckland 2; Canterbury 0 |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, RS Dunne |
| Scorer | PJ Neazor |
| Player of the Match | PA de Silva |
| Canterbury innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *DJ Murray | lbw b Morrison | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| NJ Astle | b Stephens | 7 | 17 | 35 | - | - | 41.18 |
| CZ Harris | c Mills b Stephens | 6 | 14 | 16 | 1 | - | 42.86 |
| SP Fleming | st Mills b Barnes | 70 | 63 | 115 | 6 | 1 | 111.11 |
| CL Cairns | c sub b Morrison | 4 | 13 | 14 | - | - | 30.77 |
| CD McMillan | c Mills b Vaughan | 9 | 22 | 21 | - | - | 40.91 |
| BJK Doody | b Haslam | 15 | 42 | 49 | 3 | - | 35.71 |
| MW Priest | not out | 11 | 17 | 25 | 1 | - | 64.71 |
| +MEL Lane | lbw b Barnes | 0 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MF Sharpe | lbw b Barnes | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 33.33 |
| GI Allott | c Mills b Barnes | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (2 lb, 4 nb, 8 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.5 overs) | 137 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Murray), 2-13 (Astle), 3-29 (Harris), 4-42 (Cairns), 5-65 (McMillan), 6-114 (Fleming), 7-129 (Doody), 8-129 (Lane), 9-137 (Sharpe), 10-137 (Allott, 32.5 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 7 | 2 | 24 | 2 | - | 2 | 21.00 | 3.43 |
| Stephens | 6 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 3 | - | 18.00 | 5.00 |
| Vaughan | 6 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 3.00 |
| Patel | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 5.40 |
| Barnes | 4.5 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 1 | - | 7.25 | 3.72 |
| Haslam | 4 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 4.50 |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AC Barnes | c Astle b Sharpe | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AC Parore | lbw b Allott | 0 | 1 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DN Patel | b Harris | 26 | 44 | 57 | 4 | - | 59.09 |
| PA de Silva | not out | 106 | 66 | 68 | 16 | 3 | 160.61 |
| SM Lynch | not out | 1 | 15 | 14 | - | - | 6.67 |
| *JTC Vaughan | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Peterson | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Stephens | did not bat | ||||||
| +JM Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Haslam | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 2 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 21.3 overs) | 141 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Barnes), 2-0 (Parore), 3-118 (Patel) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Sharpe | 4.3 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 27.00 | 7.33 |
| Allott | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 9.00 |
| Cairns | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 |
| Harris | 6.3 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 1 | - | 39.00 | 5.85 |
| Priest | 5.3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.27 |