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f20044 t377	South Africa v New Zealand
	New Zealand in South Africa 1953/54 (1st Test)
Venue	Kingsmead, Durban on 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th December 1953 (4-day match)
Balls per over	8
Toss	South Africa won the toss and decided to bat
Result	South Africa won by an innings and 58 runs
Umpires	AN McCabe, BV Malan
Close of play day 1	South Africa (1) 278/3 (Funston 39, McLean 93)
Close of play day 2	New Zealand (1) 70/2 (Rabone 40, Reid 5)
Close of play day 3	New Zealand (2) 22/2 (Sutcliffe 15, Mooney 5)

South Africa first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
DJ McGlew	b MacGibbon	84		205	9	-
+JHB Waite	b Overton	43		163		-
WR Endean	b MacGibbon	6
KJ Funston	lbw b Reid	39
RA McLean	c Chapple b Blair	101		138	11	-
JC Watkins	c Mooney b MacGibbon	29
*JE Cheetham	b Rabone	17
CB van Ryneveld	not out	68		101	5	-
HJ Tayfield	b Overton	28				1
ARA Murray	b Blair	0
NAT Adcock	did not bat
Extras	(10 b, 8 lb, 3 nb, 1 w)	22
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 115 overs)	437
Fall of wickets: 1-113 (Waite), 2-140 (Endean), 3-143 (McGlew), 4-278 (Funston), 5-294 (McLean), 6-335 (Cheetham), 7-337 (Watkins), 8-422 (Tayfield), 9-437 (Murray, 115 ov)

New Zealand bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Blair	22	2	104	2	-	-
Reid	16	2	49	1	-	-
Overton	27	8	92	2	-	-
MacGibbon	27	4	73	3	-	-
Poore	5	0	30	0	-	-
Dempster	10	1	36	0	-	-
Rabone	8	0	31	1	-	-

New Zealand first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
B Sutcliffe	c Waite b Tayfield	20
*GO Rabone	lbw b Tayfield	107		361	9	-
ME Chapple	b Tayfield	1
JR Reid	b Tayfield	6
LSM Miller	lbw b van Ryneveld	13
MB Poore	c Cheetham b Tayfield	32
+FLH Mooney	b Watkins	9
AR MacGibbon	st Waite b van Ryneveld	21
EW Dempster	not out	7
RW Blair	b Tayfield	2
GWF Overton	b van Ryneveld	2
Extras	(9 b, 1 lb)	10
Total	(all out, 105.6 overs)	230
Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Sutcliffe), 2-53 (Chapple), 3-75 (Reid), 4-100 (Miller), 5-162 (Poore), 6-181 (Mooney), 7-215 (MacGibbon), 8-215 (Rabone), 9-219 (Blair), 10-230 (Overton, 105.6 ov)

South Africa bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Adcock	19	3	52	0	-	-
Watkins	15	5	28	1	-	-
Murray	7	5	9	0	-	-
Tayfield	36	17	62	6	-	-
van Ryneveld	28.6	6	69	3	-	-

New Zealand second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
B Sutcliffe	c Endean b Tayfield	16
ME Chapple	c Funston b Watkins	1
JR Reid	c Funston b Watkins	0
+FLH Mooney	c Waite b Adcock	7
*GO Rabone	b Adcock	68		184	7	-
LSM Miller	lbw b Murray	18
MB Poore	st Waite b van Ryneveld	1
AR MacGibbon	c Watkins b Tayfield	19
EW Dempster	c McGlew b Adcock	0
RW Blair	st Waite b Tayfield	6
GWF Overton	not out	3
Extras	(6 b, 3 lb, 1 nb)	10
Total	(all out, 82.1 overs)	149
Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Chapple), 2-15 (Reid), 3-24 (Sutcliffe), 4-36 (Mooney), 5-85 (Miller), 6-103 (Poore), 7-125 (Rabone), 8-125 (Dempster), 9-146 (MacGibbon), 10-149 (Blair, 82.1 ov)

South Africa bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Adcock	14	4	38	3	-	-
Watkins	14	7	16	2	-	-
Tayfield	26.1	12	35	3	-	-
Murray	7	4	8	1	-	-
van Ryneveld	21	9	42	1	-	-

Notes
--> RA McLean (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 81
--> JC Watkins (1) passed 500 runs in Test Matches when he reached 5
--> NAT Adcock made his debut in Test Matches
--> GO Rabone (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 39
--> AR MacGibbon (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 20
--> GWF Overton made his debut in Test Matches
--> B Sutcliffe (2) passed 8500 runs in First-Class Matches when he reached 6
--> AR MacGibbon achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test Matches when he dismissed DJ McGlew in the South Africa first innings (previous best was 1-17)
--> CB van Ryneveld achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test Matches when he dismissed AR MacGibbon in the New Zealand first innings (previous best was 1-26)