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| Venue | The Oval, Gisborne on 8th, 9th December 1956 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Poverty Bay won by 9 wickets |
| Close of play day 1 | Poverty Bay (1) ?/3 (Martin ?*, Hough 67*) |
| Bay of Plenty first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Vartan | b Hough | 3 | |||||
| DK Richardson | c Barbour b Martin | 36 | |||||
| GJ Sutherland | c Blane b Hough | 8 | |||||
| JHG Hare | st Kelly b Kennedy | 0 | |||||
| *DW Ayres | lbw b Roderick | 64 | |||||
| J Gray | st Kelly b Roderick | 18 | |||||
| AL Carpenter | b Norman | 1 | |||||
| JB Dempster-Rivett | c Kennedy b Martin | 31 | |||||
| G Wade | c Button b Martin | 9 | |||||
| KC Abbott | not out | 2 | |||||
| DJ Ferrow | run out | 5 | |||||
| Extras | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 71.3 overs) | 189 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-189 (71.3 ov) | |||||||
| Poverty Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hough | 5 | 1 | 11 | 2 | - | - | |
| Barbour | 28.3 | 10 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kennedy | 7 | 1 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Blane | 9 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Roderick | 12 | 0 | 36 | 2 | - | - | |
| Martin | 6 | 1 | 18 | 3 | - | - | |
| Norman | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Poverty Bay first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BN Graham | b Ferrow | 25 | |||||
| SB Martin | lbw b Wade | 68 | 10 | - | |||
| +JWH Kelly | c Vartan b Dempster-Rivett | 23 | |||||
| EJ Button | c Abbott b Ferrow | 0 | |||||
| KW Hough | b Carpenter | 154 | 144 | 18 | 3 | ||
| RB Kennedy | b Ferrow | 0 | |||||
| AG McHugh | c Dempster-Rivett b Ferrow | 13 | |||||
| *JP Blane | c Abbott b Wade | 7 | |||||
| MRH Barbour | c Ferrow b Carpenter | 9 | |||||
| BC Norman | c Abbott b Ferrow | 0 | |||||
| LD Roderick | not out | 9 | |||||
| Extras | 26 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 75 overs) | 334 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-? (Graham), 2-? (Kelly), 3-97 (Button), 4-200 (Martin), 5-? (Kennedy), 6-? (McHugh), 7-? (Blane), 8-? (Barbour), 9-? (Norman), 10-334 (Hough, 75 ov) | |||||||
| Bay of Plenty bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wade | 18 | 2 | 87 | 2 | - | - | |
| Abbott | 11 | 3 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ferrow | 25 | 6 | 98 | 5 | - | - | |
| Dempster-Rivett | 17 | 2 | 82 | 1 | - | - | |
| Carpenter | 4 | 0 | 10 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bay of Plenty second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Vartan | c Roderick b Kennedy | 11 | |||||
| DK Richardson | b Barbour | 47 | |||||
| GJ Sutherland | b Blane | 5 | |||||
| JHG Hare | lbw b Blane | 13 | |||||
| *DW Ayres | lbw b Graham | 17 | |||||
| J Gray | c Graham b Barbour | 3 | |||||
| AL Carpenter | lbw b Barbour | 2 | |||||
| JB Dempster-Rivett | b Barbour | 39 | |||||
| G Wade | c Hough b Barbour | 4 | |||||
| DJ Ferrow | not out | 11 | |||||
| KC Abbott | b Barbour | 3 | |||||
| Extras | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 71.3 overs) | 166 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-166 (71.3 ov) | |||||||
| Poverty Bay bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Barbour | 17.3 | 8 | 30 | 6 | - | - | |
| Kennedy | 7 | 2 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Blane | 18 | 5 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Martin | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Roderick | 13 | 3 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| Norman | 7 | 2 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Graham | 8 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Poverty Bay second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EJ Button | not out | 18 | |||||
| BC Norman | run out | 6 | |||||
| +JWH Kelly | not out | 5 | |||||
| BN Graham | did not bat | ||||||
| SB Martin | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Hough | did not bat | ||||||
| RB Kennedy | did not bat | ||||||
| AG McHugh | did not bat | ||||||
| *JP Blane | did not bat | ||||||
| MRH Barbour | did not bat | ||||||
| LD Roderick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 6 overs) | 29 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-? (Norman) | |||||||
| Bay of Plenty bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wade | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Abbott | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richardson | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |