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| Venue | Ashburton Domain, Ashburton on 2nd, 3rd January 1957 (2-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | Toss not known | 
| Result | Match drawn | 
| Umpires | WR Moodie, JA Porter | 
| Close of play day 1 | 
| Ashburton County first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Griffiths | b Harford | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| MBA Wills | b Harley | 18 | 24 | 2 | - | ||
| BJ Mead | c Harford b JAN Blakely | 27 | 72 | 3 | - | ||
| *TA Dennis | c and b Harford | 35 | 83 | 3 | - | ||
| AW Stead | st Faulks b JAN Blakely | 1 | 3 | - | - | ||
| CJT Robertson | c Johnston b Harford | 26 | 43 | 3 | - | ||
| CR Price | c and b JAN Blakely | 0 | 21 | - | - | ||
| +CCN Hampton | c McKnight b Harley | 16 | 43 | 2 | - | ||
| DWT Drennan | c and b JAN Blakely | 7 | 30 | - | - | ||
| DG Olds | b Harley | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| AW Currie | not out | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 51 overs) | 133 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Griffiths), 2-21 (Wills), 3-77 (Mead), 4-79 (Stead), 5-91 (Dennis), 6-92 (Price), 7-113 (Robertson), 8-133 (Hampton), 9-133 (Olds), 10-133 (Drennan, 51 ov) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Harford | 24 | 4 | 55 | 3 | - | - | |
| Harley | 6 | 1 | 22 | 3 | - | - | |
| Johnston | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| JAN Blakely | 16 | 0 | 35 | 4 | - | - | |
| Central Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CP Johnston | lbw b Stead | 17 | 22 | 2 | - | ||
| SG McKnight | lbw b Price | 71 | 130 | 6 | - | ||
| RJM Blakely | b Price | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| OM Becker | c Stead b Currie | 1 | 9 | - | - | ||
| RA Procter | c and b Price | 41 | 92 | 3 | - | ||
| JAN Blakely | not out | 35 | 38 | 3 | - | ||
| N Harris | b Dennis | 15 | 22 | 1 | - | ||
| JG Flannery | lbw b Price | 7 | 14 | - | - | ||
| +K Faulks | not out | 9 | 5 | - | - | ||
| GS Harford | did not bat | ||||||
| EJP Harley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 67 overs) | 204 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26 (Johnston), 2-26 (RJM Blakely), 3-31 (Becker), 4-131 (Procter), 5-135 (McKnight), 6-172 (Harris), 7-193 (Flannery) | |||||||
| Ashburton County bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Olds | 11 | 3 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Price | 27 | 6 | 61 | 4 | - | - | |
| Currie | 10 | 3 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dennis | 11 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mead | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stead | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ashburton County second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IJ Griffiths | c Procter b JAN Blakely | 46 | 96 | 4 | 2 | ||
| MBA Wills | c Faulks b Johnston | 64 | 81 | 10 | - | ||
| CR Price | b Harford | 17 | 28 | 2 | - | ||
| *TA Dennis | c Harris b Harford | 11 | 46 | - | - | ||
| AW Stead | b Harford | 21 | 56 | 2 | - | ||
| CJT Robertson | b Harford | 87 | 73 | 12 | 2 | ||
| BJ Mead | lbw b JAN Blakely | 4 | 8 | 1 | - | ||
| +CCN Hampton | b JAN Blakely | 9 | 38 | 1 | - | ||
| DWT Drennan | not out | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| DG Olds | did not bat | ||||||
| AW Currie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (16 b, 7 lb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 205 minutes, 64 overs) | 282 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-106 (Wills), 2-136 (Griffiths), 3-143 (Price), 4-168 (Dennis), 5-198 (Stead), 6-205 (Mead), 7-280 (Hampton), 8-282 (Robertson, 64 ov) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Harford | 24 | 5 | 86 | 4 | - | - | |
| Harley | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Johnston | 10 | 2 | 39 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| JAN Blakely | 24 | 2 | 94 | 3 | - | - | |
| RJM Blakely | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Central Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SG McKnight | c sub b Price | 1 | - | - | |||
| RA Procter | c sub b Dennis | 57 | 5 | 3 | |||
| CP Johnston | c and b Currie | 13 | 3 | - | |||
| RJM Blakely | b Price | 0 | - | - | |||
| OM Becker | c Dennis b Mead | 9 | 2 | - | |||
| N Harris | c Price b Dennis | 8 | 1 | - | |||
| JAN Blakely | c Mead b Dennis | 2 | - | - | |||
| JG Flannery | not out | 16 | - | 1 | |||
| +K Faulks | st Hampton b Dennis | 28 | 4 | - | |||
| GS Harford | not out | 2 | - | - | |||
| EJP Harley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 58 overs) | 142 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (McKnight), 2-32 (Johnston), 3-32 (RJM Blakely), 4-52 (Becker), 5-85, 6-93, 7-94, 8-138 | |||||||
| Ashburton County bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Price | 17 | 7 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Currie | 8 | 3 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dennis | 13 | 5 | 37 | 4 | - | - | |
| Mead | 13 | 3 | 34 | 1 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wills | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |