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| Venue | City Oval, Pietermaritzburg on 30th November, 1st, 2nd December 1927 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Natal won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | RE Berry, CE Turner |
| Close of play day 1 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 128/4 (Tyldesley 64*, Stevens 6*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 333 all out |
| Natal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JFW Nicolson | b Geary | 44 | |||||
| IJ Siedle | lbw b Staples | 25 | |||||
| *RH Catterall | lbw b Peebles | 7 | |||||
| LTH Trotter | lbw b Geary | 16 | |||||
| EL Dalton | c Peebles b Astill | 5 | |||||
| CE Tutton | b Astill | 15 | |||||
| LP Addison | lbw b Astill | 0 | |||||
| VC Harrison | b Astill | 5 | |||||
| AF Borland | not out | 13 | |||||
| FJ Smith | c Stevens b Astill | 0 | |||||
| +GC Hart-Davis | c Tyldesley b Stevens | 6 | |||||
| Extras | 35 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 70.5 overs) | 171 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-65, 2-84, 3-116, 4-120, 5-125, 6-126, 7-137, 8-152, 9-152, 10-171 (70.5 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Geary | 19 | 4 | 32 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hammond | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Astill | 18 | 5 | 38 | 5 | - | - | |
| Staples | 14 | 10 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |
| Peebles | 11 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stevens | 5.5 | 2 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EW Dawson | c Borland b Smith | 2 | |||||
| H Sutcliffe | c Hart-Davis b Smith | 0 | |||||
| GE Tyldesley | c Siedle b Borland | 161 | 260 | 13 | 1 | ||
| WR Hammond | b Smith | 41 | |||||
| GB Legge | c Smith b Tutton | 3 | |||||
| GTS Stevens | c Hart-Davis b Tutton | 18 | |||||
| WE Astill | c Addison b Tutton | 37 | |||||
| SJ Staples | c Tutton b Catterall | 11 | |||||
| *+RT Stanyforth | b Borland | 4 | |||||
| G Geary | not out | 24 | |||||
| IAR Peebles | lbw b Borland | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (26 b, 2 lb, 1 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 103.3 overs) | 333 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-3, 3-101, 4-106, 5-156, 6-234, 7-263, 8-280, 9-327, 10-333 (103.3 ov) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 26 | 5 | 74 | 3 | - | - | |
| Tutton | 35 | 4 | 113 | 3 | - | - | |
| Catterall | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Borland | 21.3 | 2 | 60 | 3 | - | - | |
| Addison | 10 | 2 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Harrison | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |