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| Venue | Logan Park, Dunedin on 26th, 27th November 1957 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Central Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | JD Harwood, AR Knight |
| Close of play day 1 | Southland (1) 23/4 (NR Thompson 12*, Kitson 2*; 20 overs) |
| Central Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SG McKnight | c Kitson b Alabaster | 87 | |||||
| CP Johnston | lbw b Alabaster | 54 | |||||
| CG Graham | c Kitson b Alabaster | 34 | |||||
| JD Buttar | b LR Thompson | 47 | |||||
| *RI Long | c Kitson b Hill | 77 | |||||
| RJM Blakely | lbw b Hill | 1 | - | - | |||
| OM Becker | b Nicholson | 20 | |||||
| JAN Blakely | b Nicholson | 26 | |||||
| +K Faulks | b Nicholson | 2 | - | - | |||
| H Hinton | b Nicholson | 0 | - | - | |||
| GS Harford | not out | 15 | |||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 115.2 overs) | 365 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-87 (Johnston), 2-? (Graham), 3-? (McKnight), 4-? (Buttar), 5-? (RJM Blakely), 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-365 (115.2 ov) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morton | 17 | 4 | 49 | 0 | - | - | |
| Nicholson | 16.2 | 4 | 51 | 4 | - | - | |
| LR Thompson | 17 | 3 | 60 | 1 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 30 | 9 | 123 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hill | 34 | 14 | 79 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kitson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JA Gill | c Faulks b Harford | 7 | |||||
| EC Morton | c and b Hinton | 0 | - | - | |||
| AW Gilbertson | c Faulks b Hinton | 0 | - | - | |||
| WA Cochrane | c Faulks b Hinton | 0 | - | - | |||
| +NR Thompson | not out | 12 | |||||
| GW Kitson | not out | 2 | - | - | |||
| WA Robertson | did not bat | ||||||
| LR Thompson | did not bat | ||||||
| CR Nicholson | did not bat | ||||||
| JC Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| J Hill | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 50 minutes, 20 overs) | 23 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-? (Morton), 2-? (Gilbertson), 3-? (Cochrane), 4-? (Gill) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Harford | 10 | 3 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hinton | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |