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| Venue | Horton Park, Blenheim on 7th, 8th March 1973 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Close of play day 1 | Southland (1) 298/3 (Murdoch 23*, Crombie 1*) |
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KJ O'Connor | c Cameron b Maclaine | 115 | 14 | - | |||
| +NR Thompson | lbw b Sowman | 32 | 6 | - | |||
| RW Anderson | c Maclaine b Sowman | 120 | 17 | 3 | |||
| GH Murdoch | c and b Cameron | 41 | |||||
| DM Crombie | run out | 32 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | not out | 30 | |||||
| *GD Alabaster | c Sowman b Cameron | 0 | |||||
| LD Hollands | b Sowman | 9 | |||||
| KA Nicholson | lbw b Cameron | 11 | |||||
| WF Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| GA Ashby | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared) | 398 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-101 (Thompson), 2-201 (O'Connor), 3-289 (Anderson), 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-398 | |||||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Maclaine | 11 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Thomas | ? | ? | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Neal | 10 | 1 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sowman | 33 | 7 | 95 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hogg | ? | ? | 78 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cameron | 18 | 3 | 60 | 3 | - | - | |
| Robinson | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marlborough first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *DIA Cameron | c Anderson b Ashby | 8 | |||||
| MD Catley | c Anderson b Murdoch | 57 | 5 | - | |||
| DH Robinson | b Ashby | 2 | |||||
| PB Neal | c Anderson b Alabaster | 34 | |||||
| RI Thomas | c and b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| BL Cairns | b Wilson | 0 | |||||
| AT Sowman | lbw b Alabaster | 16 | |||||
| CM Schroder | c Murdoch b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| NF Maclaine | c and b Alabaster | 0 | |||||
| +AW Hart | c McKechnie b Alabaster | 28 | |||||
| TF Hogg | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 64.5 overs) | 164 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-164 (64.5 ov) | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nicholson | 8 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 9 | 1 | 29 | 2 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 25.5 | 13 | 29 | 6 | - | - | |
| Wilson | 8 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| McKechnie | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Murdoch | 9 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Southland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DM Crombie | not out | 32 | 50 | ||||
| LD Hollands | not out | 19 | 50 | ||||
| KJ O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| +NR Thompson | did not bat | ||||||
| RW Anderson | did not bat | ||||||
| GH Murdoch | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| *GD Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| KA Nicholson | did not bat | ||||||
| WF Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| GA Ashby | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 50 minutes, 14 overs) | 53 | |||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Maclaine | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sowman | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Robinson | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hogg | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |