| misc28154 | |
| Venue | Horton Park, Blenheim on 3rd, 4th February 1954 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Marlborough won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Fiji won by 9 wickets |
| Umpires | GNH Gillett, JD Laird |
| Close of play day 1 | Fiji (1) 93/7 (Mara 0*; 31 overs) |
| Marlborough first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Fisher | c Apted b Simmons | 2 | |||||
| JR Barnett | b Mara | 6 | |||||
| B Thompson | c Tuiyau b Mara | 11 | |||||
| *AJ Neal | c Freeman b Kavuru | 43 | 89 | ||||
| +AJ McGuire | lbw b Simmons | 8 | |||||
| RM Jarrett | b Simmons | 13 | 35 | ||||
| D McIntyre | b Loganimoce | 4 | |||||
| RE Harding | b Simmons | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| G Drylie | b Kavuru | 1 | |||||
| RB Neal | c Bula b Mara | 3 | |||||
| TR Neal | not out | 12 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 165 minutes, 51.5 overs) | 110 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Fisher), 2-21, 3-22, 4-58, 5-88, 6-88, 7-88, 8-89, 9-92, 10-110 (51.5 ov) | |||||||
| Fiji bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Simmons | 18 | 7 | 35 | 4 | - | - | |
| Mara | 13 | 6 | 15 | 3 | - | - | |
| Loganimoce | 8.5 | 4 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Moku | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kavuru | 7 | 3 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Uluiviti | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fiji first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| U Moku | b AJ Neal | 1 | |||||
| M Bogisa | b AJ Neal | 7 | |||||
| +NN Tuiyau | b RB Neal | 17 | |||||
| NM Uluiviti | b RB Neal | 17 | |||||
| WW Apted | b TR Neal | 32 | |||||
| IL Bula | c RB Neal b Drylie | 5 | |||||
| DL Freeman | lbw b TR Neal | 7 | |||||
| *KKT Mara | c Jarrett b TR Neal | 0 | |||||
| E Loganimoce | c Fisher b TR Neal | 14 | |||||
| MF Simmons | b Drylie | 14 | |||||
| N Kavuru | not out | 7 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43.5 overs) | 133 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Moku), 2-12 (Bogisa), 3-34 (Tuiyau), 4-45 (Uluiviti), 5-82 (Bula), 6-86 (Apted), 7-93 (Freeman, 30.6 ov), 8-94 (Mara), 9-119, 10-133 (43.5 ov) | |||||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| TR Neal | 14 | 1 | 46 | 4 | - | - | |
| AJ Neal | 13 | 4 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| RB Neal | 8 | 1 | 25 | 2 | - | - | |
| Drylie | 8.5 | 1 | 19 | 2 | - | - | |
| Marlborough second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RM Jarrett | b Mara | 4 | |||||
| JR Barnett | lbw b Mara | 1 | |||||
| B Thompson | lbw b Simmons | 6 | |||||
| *AJ Neal | b Simmons | 2 | |||||
| +AJ McGuire | c Tuiyau b Mara | 9 | |||||
| B Fisher | b Loganimoce | 25 | |||||
| D McIntyre | b Mara | 1 | |||||
| RE Harding | b Simmons | 15 | |||||
| G Drylie | b Loganimoce | 2 | |||||
| RB Neal | b Loganimoce | 21 | |||||
| TR Neal | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 2 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 105 minutes, 34.3 overs) | 91 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-5, 3-13, 4-14, 5-32, 6-45, 7-50, 8-52, 9-88, 10-91 (34.3 ov) | |||||||
| Fiji bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mara | 17 | 7 | 29 | 4 | - | - | |
| Simmons | 9.3 | 2 | 20 | 3 | - | - | |
| Loganimoce | 8 | 2 | 37 | 3 | - | - | |
| Fiji second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +NN Tuiyau | b Jarrett | 29 | |||||
| WW Apted | not out | 25 | |||||
| U Moku | not out | 7 | |||||
| NM Uluiviti | did not bat | ||||||
| M Bogisa | did not bat | ||||||
| IL Bula | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Freeman | did not bat | ||||||
| *KKT Mara | did not bat | ||||||
| E Loganimoce | did not bat | ||||||
| MF Simmons | did not bat | ||||||
| N Kavuru | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 76 minutes, 25.4 overs) | 70 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-52 (Tuiyau) | |||||||
| Marlborough bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| TR Neal | 8 | 3 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| AJ Neal | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Drylie | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| RB Neal | 4.4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jarrett | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |