- Test no. 284 | 1946/47 season
- Played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch
- 21,22,24,25 March 1947 (3-day match)
| New Zealand 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| WA Hadlee* | c Bedser b Yardley | 116 | 167 | 11 | 0 | ||
| B Sutcliffe | c †Evans b Bedser | 58 | 133 | 7 | 0 | ||
| VJ Scott | c Hammond b Pollard | 18 | 61 | 2 | 0 | ||
| WM Wallace | c †Evans b Bedser | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | ||
| DD Taylor | lbw b Bedser | 12 | 53 | 1 | 0 | ||
| FB Smith | b Bedser | 18 | 16 | 1 | 0 | ||
| EWT Tindill† | b Pollard | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
| RH Scott | b Edrich | 18 | 43 | 3 | 0 | ||
| J Cowie | b Pollard | 45 | 112 | 4 | 1 | ||
| TB Burtt | not out | 24 | 85 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 10, lb 11, nb 5) | 26 | |||||
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| Total | (9 wickets dec; 102.4 overs) | 345 | (3.36 runs per over) | ||||
| Did not bat CA Snedden |
| Fall of wickets 1-133 (Sutcliffe), 2-195 (Hadlee), 3-212 (Wallace), 4-212 (VJ Scott), 5-234 (Smith), 6-238 (Tindill), 7-258 (Taylor), 8-281 (RH Scott), 9-345 (Cowie) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AV Bedser | 39 | 5 | 95 | 4 | 2.43 | |||
| R Pollard | 29.4 | 8 | 73 | 3 | 2.46 | |||
| WJ Edrich | 11 | 2 | 35 | 1 | 3.18 | |||
| DVP Wright | 13 | 1 | 61 | 0 | 4.69 | |||
| TPB Smith | 6 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 7.16 | |||
| NWD Yardley | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3.00 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| C Washbrook | c Smith b Cowie | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| NWD Yardley | b Cowie | 22 | 63 | 2 | 0 | ||
| WJ Edrich | c Taylor b RH Scott | 42 | 95 | 3 | 0 | ||
| DCS Compton | b Cowie | 38 | 66 | 2 | 1 | ||
| WR Hammond* | c Sutcliffe b Cowie | 79 | 123 | 10 | 0 | ||
| JT Ikin | c †Tindill b Cowie | 45 | 97 | 6 | 0 | ||
| TG Evans† | not out | 21 | 38 | 3 | 0 | ||
| TPB Smith | c sub b Cowie | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||
| AV Bedser | not out | 8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 5, lb 1, nb 1) | 7 | |||||
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| Total | (7 wickets dec; 83 overs) | 265 | (3.19 runs per over) | ||||
| Did not bat DVP Wright, R Pollard |
| Fall of wickets 1-2 (Washbrook), 2-46 (Yardley), 3-79 (Edrich), 4-125 (Compton), 5-222 (Ikin), 6-241 (Hammond), 7-249 (Smith) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| J Cowie | 30 | 4 | 83 | 6 | 2.76 | |||
| RH Scott | 23 | 3 | 74 | 1 | 3.21 | |||
| TB Burtt | 14 | 1 | 55 | 0 | 3.92 | |||
| CA Snedden | 16 | 5 | 46 | 0 | 2.87 |
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Toss England, who chose to field Series One-off match drawn |
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Test debuts
TB Burtt,
RH Scott,
FB Smith,
CA Snedden,
B Sutcliffe and
DD Taylor
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Umpires
OR Montgomery and MF Pengelly |
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