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| Venue | Molyneux Park, Alexandra on 10th, 11th March 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Southland first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *+NR Thompson | lbw b Steel | 50 | 300 | 2 | - | ||
| DR Barnett | c Buttar b Steel | 8 | |||||
| RN Hoskin | run out | 6 | |||||
| RJ Verrall | c Waldron b McHutchon | 32 | |||||
| KJ Burns | lbw b Buttar | 3 | |||||
| GJ Dawson | b McHutchon | 0 | |||||
| DR Murdoch | b Steel | 23 | |||||
| JK Lindsay | b Steel | 11 | |||||
| TJ Wilson | b Steel | 24 | |||||
| GA Ashby | b Masefield | 0 | |||||
| JS Stevenson | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 82.3 overs) | 167 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Barnett), 2-21 (Hoskin), 3-81 (Verrall), 4-84 (Burns), 5-85 (Dawson), 6-115 (Thompson), 7-139, 8-164, 9-167, 10-167 (82.3 ov) | |||||||
| Central Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Steel | 17.3 | 1 | 63 | 5 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 13 | 4 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| McHutchon | 25 | 16 | 25 | 2 | - | - | |
| Buttar | 24 | 11 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| BK McSkimming | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Masefield | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| Central Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GAW Blakely | c Thompson b Ashby | 20 | |||||
| TD Sutherland | c Ashby b Burns | 17 | |||||
| J Barrie | c Thompson b Wilson | 26 | |||||
| CW Buttar | c Hoskin b Stevenson | 33 | 2 | - | |||
| BK McSkimming | c and b Wilson | 1 | |||||
| TJ Masefield | not out | 66 | 3 | - | |||
| SH McSkimming | not out | 1 | |||||
| +G Waldron | did not bat | ||||||
| GS Steel | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Stewart | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ McHutchon | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 68 overs) | 174 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39, 2-45, 3-81, 4-83, 5-166 | |||||||
| Southland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 16 | 5 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 20 | 4 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Burns | 11 | 3 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stevenson | 17 | 2 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lindsay | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |