misc602222	Southland v Central Districts
	Other matches in New Zealand 1956/57
Venue	Queen's Park, Invercargill on 22nd, 23rd January 1957 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Southland won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Central Districts won by 7 wickets
Umpires	GR Ayres, RW Pollok
Close of play day 1	Central Districts (1) 94/4 (Guy 33*, Buist 16*; 47 overs)

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Southland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+JA Gill	lbw b Beard	68		137	6	1
SG Morton	lbw b Beard	7
ID Payne	b Tarrant	30
NR Thompson	run out	0
AW Gilbertson	b Beard	0
WA Cochrane	b Smith	40		98	5	1
DG McDermott	c and b Beard	8
*JC Alabaster	c Bowden b Beard	0
J Hill	c and b Beard	0
GWF Overton	c Beard b Smith	23
LR Thompson	not out	4
Extras	(6 b, 11 lb, 1 nb)	18
Total	(all out, 75 overs)	198
Fall of wickets:
1-12 (Morton), 2-107, 3-107, 4-107, 5-114, 6-126, 7-126, 8-131, 9-189, 10-198 (75 ov)

Central Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tarrant	16	7	33	1	-	-
Beard	29	13	55	6	-	-
Guy	4	0	19	0	-	-
Cave	14	6	21	0	-	-
Buist	4	0	12	0	-	-
Meuli	4	0	24	0	-	-
Smith	4	1	16	2	-	-

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Central Districts first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
DW Bowden	b LR Thompson	12
DN MacLeod	b Overton	11
JW Guy	c Payne b Alabaster	64		149	7	-
EM Meuli	lbw b Alabaster	9
KFH Smith	run out	0
GT Buist	c Gill b Hill	53		161	10	-
DD Beard	c Alabaster b Hill	43			3	3
*HB Cave	c NR Thompson b Alabaster	6
RE Brown	c Hill b Alabaster	6
+IA Colquhoun	c Morton b Alabaster	1
DR Tarrant	not out	2
Extras	(18 b, 5 lb, 2 nb)	25
Total	(all out, 99.1 overs)	232
Fall of wickets:
1-29, 2-29, 3-51, 4-53, 5-142, 6-210, 7-220, 8-220, 9-227, 10-232 (99.1 ov)

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Overton	19	6	46	1	-	-
LR Thompson	8	3	19	1	-	-
Alabaster	35.1	13	94	5	-	-
Hill	37	20	48	2	-	-

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Southland second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+JA Gill	lbw b Brown	29
SG Morton	lbw b Brown	20
ID Payne	b Beard	2
NR Thompson	c Bowden b Beard	31
AW Gilbertson	c Tarrant b Brown	7
WA Cochrane	b Brown	0
DG McDermott	c Buist b Beard	0
*JC Alabaster	b Brown	35			6	-
J Hill	c MacLeod b Beard	3
GWF Overton	c Guy b Beard	0
LR Thompson	not out	2
Extras	(6 b, 3 lb)	9
Total	(all out, 64.3 overs)	138
Fall of wickets:
1-37, 2-44, 3-58, 4-70, 5-74, 6-87, 7-116, 8-128, 9-136, 10-138 (64.3 ov)

Central Districts bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tarrant	6	2	16	0	-	-
Beard	20.3	6	47	5	-	-
Cave	4	2	5	0	-	-
Brown	25	14	39	5	-	-
Smith	9	4	22	0	-	-

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Central Districts second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
DW Bowden	c Alabaster b Hill	13
JW Guy	run out	11
DD Beard	c Morton b Hill	13
DN MacLeod	not out	46		24	5	3
KFH Smith	not out	11
EM Meuli	did not bat
GT Buist	did not bat
*HB Cave	did not bat
RE Brown	did not bat
+IA Colquhoun	did not bat
DR Tarrant	did not bat
Extras	(7 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 1 w)	11
Total	(3 wickets, 50 minutes, 13 overs)	105
Fall of wickets:
1-22, 2-27, 3-66

Southland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Hill	7	0	54	2	-	-
LR Thompson	4	0	33	0	-	-
Alabaster	2	0	7	0	-	-

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JA Gill and ID Payne added 95 for the second wicket in the Southland first innings
GT Buist and DD Beard added 68 in 31 minutes for the sixth wicket in the Central Districts first innings
Central Districts had 48 minutes to score 105 to win the match outright and reached their target with DN Macleod hitting the final ball of the match for six with a tremendous straight drive into the trees