misc601747	Poverty Bay v Auckland Touring Team
	Other matches in New Zealand 1926/27
Venue	The Oval, Gisborne on 1st, 3rd January 1927 (2-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	Auckland Touring Team won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Close of play day 1	Poverty Bay (1) 155/6 (Robertson 74*, Cooke 27*; 41 overs)

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Auckland Touring Team first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+F McCarthy	c Tasker b Robertson	29
LTJ Monteith	c Tasker b Lockett	19
AF Weir	c BR Schollum b Bennett	25
EC Gee	b Moody	13
PE Whitelaw	c Robertson b Moody	3
VC Butler	b Lockett	33
EW Wells	b Moody	15
*LH Saunders	lbw b Lockett	10
JB Simpson	st BR Schollum b Moody	16
CR Jones	b Bennett	18
WJ Coates	not out	15
Extras	(3 lb, 3 nb)	6
Total	(all out, 54.5 overs)	202
Fall of wickets:
1-43 (Monteith), 2-51 (McCarthy), 3-79 (Weir), 4-89 (Gee), 5-90 (Whitelaw), 6-127 (Wells), 7-139 (Butler), 8-163 (Simpson), 9-175 (Saunders), 10-202 (Jones, 54.5 ov)

Poverty Bay bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Robertson	7	1	23	1	-	-
Bennett	16.5	2	38	2	-	-
Moody	15	1	81	4	-	-
Lockett	16	2	57	3	-	3

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Poverty Bay first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FC Bennett	b Saunders	3
+BR Schollum	run out	2
HF Forster	b Butler	11
HE Cave	b Simpson	1
GJ Robertson	c Whitelaw b Weir	100
JW Schollum	c Butler b Weir	3
GN Lockett	b Coates	20
*AC Cooke	b Saunders	36
J Moody	c Saunders b Butler	10
N Tasker	c Gee b Weir	11
A Baker	not out	1
Extras	(16 b, 3 lb, 3 nb)	22
Total	(all out, 225 minutes, 61.4 overs)	220
Fall of wickets:
1-3 (Bennett), 2-9 (BR Schollum), 3-10 (Cave), 4-38 (Forster), 5-55 (JW Schollum), 6-110 (Lockett), 7-171 (Cooke), 8-193 (Moody), 9-217 (Robertson), 10-220 (Tasker, 61.4 ov)

Auckland Touring Team bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Simpson	8	1	29	1	-	-
Saunders	16	3	52	2	-	-
Coates	19	3	50	1	-	3
Butler	10	1	41	2	-	-
Weir	5.4	0	17	3	-	-
Wells	3	0	9	0	-	-

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Auckland Touring Team second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
LTJ Monteith	b Robertson	15
JB Simpson	c Lockett b Bennett	16
AF Weir	b Bennett	19
EC Gee	c Bennett b Moody	20
+F McCarthy	b Bennett	28
EW Wells	lbw b Lockett	21
VC Butler	c Robertson b Lockett	32
CR Jones	b JW Schollum	13
WJ Coates	lbw b JW Schollum	6
PE Whitelaw	c and b Lockett	11
*LH Saunders	not out	12
Extras		0
Total	(all out, 48.7 overs)	193
Fall of wickets:
1-18 (Simpson), 2-45 (Monteith), 3-57 (Weir), 4-95, 5-111, 6-149, 7-160, 8-170, 9-173, 10-193 (48.7 ov)

Poverty Bay bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Robertson	14	4	41	1	-	-
Bennett	14	0	65	3	-	-
Lockett	12.7	0	52	3	-	-
Moody	4	0	15	1	-	-
JW Schollum	4	0	20	2	-	-

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Poverty Bay second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FC Bennett	c Whitelaw b Butler	0
+BR Schollum	b Saunders	3
HE Cave	c Jones b Butler	15
GJ Robertson	c Saunders b Butler	10
JW Schollum	st McCarthy b Saunders	13
HF Forster	c McCarthy b Coates	14
GN Lockett	run out	0
*AC Cooke	not out	9
J Moody	c Monteith b Butler	5
N Tasker	c Gee b Butler	0
A Baker	not out	0	3	2	-	-
Extras	(4 b, 1 nb)	5
Total	(9 wickets, 29 overs)	74
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Bennett), 2-16 (BR Schollum), 3-18 (Cave), 4-33 (Robertson), 5-60, 6-60, 7-64, 8-74, 9-74

Auckland Touring Team bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Butler	11	2	30	5	-	-
Saunders	12	1	21	2	-	-
Weir	2	0	10	0	-	1
Coates	4	1	8	1	-	-

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Notes
--> Bowling in the Auckland Touring Team first innings adds 3 runs over
--> Auckland Touring Team first innings: 100 in 125 minutes

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Poverty Bay had 105 minutes to score 176 to win the match outright but never attempted the target and after losing their eighth and ninth wickets off the fourth and fifth balls of the final over, A Baker survived the last 3 deliveries to earn his team a draw