misc603537	Wellington v Combined Services
	Other matches in New Zealand 1973/74
Venue	Basin Reserve, Wellington on 30th, 31st March 1974 (2-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	Toss not known
Result	Wellington won by 8 wickets
Close of play day 1	Wellington (1) 59/2 (Morrison ?*, Bilby ?*)

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Combined Services first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
OF Dryland	c Newdick b Cater	86		315
RH Winborn	c BD Smith b Cater	2
JH Andrews	b Cater	0
RL Cusdin	b Chatfield	8
RP Wixon	c RW Smith b BD Smith	22
*LC Sparks	b Vaikvee	54
R Robinson	b Cater	11
M Rutherford	c Therkleson b Chatfield	4
D Jones	lbw b Cater	8
RJ Oliver	not out	17
GP Johnson	did not bat
Extras	(7 b, 4 lb, 8 nb)	19
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 72.1 overs)	231
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Winborn), 2-8 (Andrews), 3-18 (Cusdin), 4-70 (Wixon), 5-163, 6-188, 7-203, 8-205, 9-231 (72.1 ov)

Wellington bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Chatfield	21	9	48	2	-	-
Cater	14.1	6	28	5	-	-
McGregor	11	3	30	0	-	-
Vaikvee	12	1	45	1	-	-
BD Smith	14	3	45	1	-	-

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Wellington first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JFM Morrison	b Wixon	58
GA Newdick	c Wixon b Johnson	8
RW Smith	c Wixon b Sparks	1
*GP Bilby	not out	72
BD Smith	not out	19
EJ Gray	did not bat
PB McGregor	did not bat
T Vaikvee	did not bat
+IJ Therkleson	did not bat
SB Cater	did not bat
EJ Chatfield	did not bat
Extras	(3 nb)	3
Total	(3 wickets, declared, 28 overs)	161
Fall of wickets:
1-35 (Newdick), 2-42 (RW Smith), 3-94 (Morrison)

Combined Services bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Johnson	9	1	39	1	-	-
Sparks	5	0	33	1	-	-
Oliver	7	1	35	0	-	-
Jones	2	0	21	0	-	-
Wixon	5	0	30	1	-	-

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Combined Services second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
OF Dryland	c Bilby b Cater	1
RH Winborn	b Cater	22
RL Cusdin	c Therkleson b Cater	0
RP Wixon	b Chatfield	4
JH Andrews	b Vaikvee	14
*LC Sparks	run out	14
R Robinson	c Newdick b BD Smith	10
M Rutherford	lbw b Vaikvee	12
D Jones	c Therkleson b Chatfield	21
RJ Oliver	c McGregor b BD Smith	1
GP Johnson	not out	25
Extras	(6 b, 6 lb, 1 nb, 1 w)	14
Total	(all out, 40.5 overs)	138
Fall of wickets:
1-1 (Dryland), 2-1 (Cusdin), 3-8 (Wixon), 4-42, 5-46, 6-58, 7-86, 8-89, 9-94, 10-138 (40.5 ov)

Wellington bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Chatfield	9.5	4	21	2	-	-
Cater	10	3	22	3	-	-
BD Smith	10	3	41	2	-	-
Vaikvee	11	1	40	2	-	-

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Wellington second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
GA Newdick	b Sparks	47
JFM Morrison	not out	104		139	11	-
EJ Gray	c Cusdin b Sparks	23
*GP Bilby	not out	34
RW Smith	did not bat
BD Smith	did not bat
PB McGregor	did not bat
T Vaikvee	did not bat
+IJ Therkleson	did not bat
SB Cater	did not bat
EJ Chatfield	did not bat
Extras	(1 lb, 2 nb)	3
Total	(2 wickets, 139 minutes, 34.1 overs)	211
Fall of wickets:
1-87 (Newdick), 2-143 (Gray)

Combined Services bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Johnson	8	0	58	0	-	-
Sparks	11	1	52	2	-	-
Oliver	5	0	31	0	-	-
Rutherford	1	0	14	0	-	-
Wixon	9	0	49	0	-	-
Dryland	0.1	0	4	0	-	-

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Notes
--> Bowling in the Combined Services first innings adds 16 runs under

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Wellington had 90 minutes plus a minimum 15 overs in the final hour to score 211 to win the match outright and reached their target with 4.7 overs to spare