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| Venue | The Oval, St Helens on 27th May 1978 (1-day single innings match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | St Helens Recreation won by 6 wickets |
| Points | St Helens Recreation 5; Neston 0 |
| Umpires | E Tatlock, J Worthington |
| Scorer | BS Parker |
| Neston innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NR Halsall | b Parr | 4 | 9 | 1 | - | ||
| NC Williams | b Lawrenson | 15 | 95 | 2 | - | ||
| D Cox | b Leather | 7 | 26 | 1 | - | ||
| KE Peers | c Wass b Whitfield | 43 | 106 | 4 | - | ||
| JCR Marshall | lbw b Lawrenson | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| R de Winter | c and b Whitfield | 22 | 34 | 4 | - | ||
| PA Davis | not out | 20 | 43 | 1 | - | ||
| NJ Aston | c Parr b Appleton | 5 | 11 | 1 | - | ||
| PS Bryan | run out | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| P North | lbw b Whitfield | 3 | 10 | - | - | ||
| TP Ledsham | c Huyton b Whitfield | 2 | 10 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 179 minutes, 57 overs) | 125 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Halsall), 2-15 (Cox), 3-51 (Williams), 4-55 (Marshall), 5-93 (de Winter), 6-96 (Peers), 7-104 (Aston), 8-105 (Bryan), 9-113 (North), 10-125 (Ledsham, 57 ov) | |||||||
| St Helens Recreation bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Parr | 8 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Leather | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lawrenson | 9 | 2 | 22 | 2 | - | - | |
| Appleton | 18 | 3 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Whitfield | 12 | 4 | 23 | 4 | - | - | |
| St Helens Recreation innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DG Wakefield | run out | 1 | 16 | - | - | ||
| PJ Whitfield | c Aston b Ledsham | 17 | 60 | 2 | - | ||
| R Manley | not out | 49 | 115 | 1 | - | ||
| BJ Littler | c Davis b Bryan | 28 | 39 | 5 | - | ||
| PG Wass | c Aston b North | 8 | 13 | 1 | - | ||
| I Huyton | not out | 13 | 17 | 2 | - | ||
| W Fowler | did not bat | ||||||
| FJ Lawrenson | did not bat | ||||||
| TD Parr | did not bat | ||||||
| MA Appleton | did not bat | ||||||
| G Leather | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 5 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 132 minutes, 35.4 overs) | 126 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Wakefield), 2-41 (Whitfield), 3-87 (Littler), 4-99 (Wass) | |||||||
| Neston bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ledsham | 9 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Halsall | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Davis | 8 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bryan | 8 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| North | 4.4 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 2 | - | |