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| Venue | No 1 Sports Ground, Newcastle on 31st October, 1st, 2nd, 3rd November 1997 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New South Wales won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New South Wales won by an innings and 95 runs |
| Umpires | DJ Harper, AJ Morgan |
| Scorers | ME Gorham (New South Wales), RE Willis (New Zealanders) |
| Close of play day 1 | New South Wales (1) 281/3 (Slater 136*, Bevan 48*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealanders (1) 57/4 (McMillan 17*, Harris 8*) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealanders (2) 82/3 (Astle 9*, Fleming 0*) |
| New South Wales first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *MA Taylor | run out (Doull) | 17 | 42 | 47 | - | - | |
| MJ Slater | lbw b Doull | 137 | 303 | 370 | 13 | - | |
| CJ Richards | b Vettori | 21 | 46 | 64 | 2 | - | |
| ME Waugh | st Parore b Astle | 44 | 108 | 118 | 4 | - | |
| MG Bevan | run out (McMillan->Harris) | 143 | 270 | 343 | 12 | - | |
| S Lee | run out (Davis->Vettori) | 4 | 2 | 7 | - | - | |
| GRJ Matthews | not out | 71 | 170 | 221 | 3 | 1 | |
| +PA Emery | not out | 4 | 19 | 24 | 1 | - | |
| AM Stuart | did not bat | ||||||
| SCG MacGill | did not bat | ||||||
| SH Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 9 lb, 12 nb) | 28 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 601 minutes, 159 overs) | 469 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Taylor), 2-75 (Richards), 3-178 (Waugh), 4-282 (Slater), 5-292 (Lee), 6-459 (Bevan) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Doull | 26 | 4 | 66 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Connor | 21 | 4 | 67 | 0 | - | - | |
| Davis | 20 | 4 | 71 | 0 | - | 5 | |
| Harris | 36 | 11 | 78 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Astle | 8 | 3 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Vettori | 37 | 5 | 131 | 1 | - | - | |
| McMillan | 11 | 3 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Young | c Emery b Stuart | 0 | 5 | 4 | - | - | |
| BA Pocock | c Emery b Cook | 16 | 57 | 83 | 1 | - | |
| NJ Astle | lbw b Cook | 5 | 10 | 12 | 1 | - | |
| *SP Fleming | c Slater b Matthews | 3 | 23 | 33 | - | - | |
| CD McMillan | c Richards b Stuart | 62 | 168 | 195 | 9 | - | |
| CZ Harris | c Emery b Cook | 28 | 79 | 108 | 1 | - | |
| +AC Parore | c sub (SR Clark) b MacGill | 27 | 72 | 87 | 4 | - | |
| DL Vettori | c and b Lee | 47 | 79 | 104 | 6 | - | |
| SB Doull | c Waugh b MacGill | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| SB O'Connor | b MacGill | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| HT Davis | not out | 7 | 49 | 65 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (12 b, 3 lb, 4 nb) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 353 minutes, 90.2 overs) | 214 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Young), 2-5 (Astle), 3-19 (Fleming), 4-35 (Pocock), 5-92 (Harris), 6-153 (McMillan), 7-157 (Parore), 8-157 (Doull), 9-157 (O'Connor), 10-214 (Vettori) | |||||||
| New South Wales bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Stuart | 21 | 7 | 46 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Cook | 20 | 5 | 38 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| Matthews | 10 | 3 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| MacGill | 25 | 10 | 55 | 3 | - | - | |
| Waugh | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lee | 9.2 | 3 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Pocock | lbw b MacGill | 47 | 102 | 116 | 4 | - | |
| BA Young | b Waugh | 20 | 69 | 90 | - | - | |
| NJ Astle | b Cook | 15 | 54 | 57 | 2 | - | |
| HT Davis | lbw b Cook | 0 | 7 | 7 | - | - | |
| *SP Fleming | c Emery b Cook | 7 | 16 | 32 | - | - | |
| CD McMillan | b Waugh | 0 | 5 | 4 | - | - | |
| CZ Harris | c Emery b MacGill | 10 | 43 | 56 | 1 | - | |
| +AC Parore | c Emery b Cook | 8 | 18 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| DL Vettori | not out | 25 | 35 | 59 | 2 | - | |
| SB Doull | run out (Waugh->MacGill) | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | - | |
| SB O'Connor | c and b MacGill | 9 | 11 | 13 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (7 b, 2 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 235 minutes, 61.1 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-64 (Young), 2-79 (Pocock), 3-80 (Davis), 4-94 (Astle), 5-95 (McMillan), 6-95 (Fleming), 7-109 (Parore), 8-135 (Harris), 9-143 (Doull), 10-160 (O'Connor) | |||||||
| New South Wales bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Stuart | 6 | 2 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cook | 21 | 5 | 61 | 4 | - | - | |
| MacGill | 18.1 | 4 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Waugh | 16 | 3 | 26 | 2 | - | - | |