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| Venue | Cobham Oval, Whangarei on 12th, 13th December 1976 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Auckland won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Close of play day 1 | Auckland (1) 103/1 (Parsons 40*, Reid 47*; 31 overs) |
| Northland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Turner | c Ackland b Laird | 138 | 224 | 264 | 15 | - | |
| RJ McPherson | c Troup b Laird | 1 | - | - | |||
| DP Lloyd | lbw b Troup | 43 | 153 | 5 | - | ||
| GW Taylor | c Fairhead b Morgan | 10 | 57 | ||||
| *B Dunning | c Ackland b Laird | 11 | 32 | ||||
| JM Chitty | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| JC McLeod | c Jones b Ackland | 0 | 5 | - | - | ||
| CW Dickeson | c Reid b Ackland | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| MJ Child | not out | 1 | - | - | |||
| +LS Mountain | did not bat | ||||||
| JP Moselen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 7 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 56 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (McPherson, 1.1 ov), 2-112 (Lloyd), 3-166 (Taylor), 4-206 (Dunning), 5-211 (Turner), 6-211 (McLeod), 7-211 (Dickeson) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Troup | 16 | 4 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Laird | 11 | 3 | 32 | 3 | - | - | |
| Fairhead | 11 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 9 | 1 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ackland | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | - | - | |
| Parsons | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Auckland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AEW Parsons | lbw b Dickeson | 67 | 209 | 8 | - | ||
| JD Riley | c Lloyd b Moselen | 10 | |||||
| +JF Reid | b Child | 71 | 157 | 9 | - | ||
| *RW Morgan | not out | 44 | 6 | - | |||
| RJ Kasper | b Lloyd | 54 | 49 | 11 | - | ||
| PN Webb | not out | 6 | |||||
| GJ Jones | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Ackland | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Fairhead | did not bat | ||||||
| IH Laird | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 7 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 67 overs) | 261 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Riley), 2-136 (Reid), 3-170 (Parsons), 4-240 (Kasper) | |||||||
| Northland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Moselen | 8 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | |
| Child | 25 | 5 | 92 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dunning | 7 | 2 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dickeson | 19 | 6 | 56 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lloyd | 7 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | |
| McLeod | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Northland second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ McPherson | b Troup | 7 | |||||
| GM Turner | c Ackland b Morgan | 68 | 158 | 6 | - | ||
| DP Lloyd | c Reid b Troup | 0 | |||||
| GW Taylor | c Riley b Ackland | 30 | 63 | 3 | - | ||
| JM Chitty | not out | 30 | 116 | 5 | - | ||
| *B Dunning | c Troup b Webb | 15 | |||||
| JC McLeod | c Kasper b Morgan | 5 | |||||
| +LS Mountain | c Kasper b Morgan | 10 | |||||
| CW Dickeson | not out | 1 | |||||
| MJ Child | did not bat | ||||||
| JP Moselen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 57 overs) | 170 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (McPherson), 2-13 (Lloyd), 3-62 (Taylor), 4-126 (Turner), 5-151 (Dunning), 6-156 (McLeod), 7-168 (Mountain) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kasper | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Troup | 5 | 0 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Parsons | 7 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Riley | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ackland | 11 | 0 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jones | 9 | 2 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fairhead | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 7 | 0 | 22 | 3 | - | - | |
| Webb | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Laird | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |