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| Venue | Newlands, Cape Town on 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th January 1954 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DV Collins, S Collins |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 212/2 (Poore 31*, Sutcliffe 37*; 90 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | South Africa (1) 5/0 (McGlew 1*, Waite 3*; 1 over) |
| Close of play day 3 | South Africa (1) 206/7 (Cheetham 25*, Tayfield 2*; 88 overs) |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *GO Rabone | lbw b van Ryneveld | 56 | 266 | 238 | 5 | - | |
| ME Chapple | c Waite b van Ryneveld | 76 | 213 | 198 | 5 | - | |
| MB Poore | c McGlew b Adcock | 44 | 188 | 168 | 2 | - | |
| B Sutcliffe | c Waite b Ironside | 66 | 165 | 176 | 5 | - | |
| JR Reid | b Murray | 135 | 197 | 196 | 18 | 2 | |
| JEF Beck | run out (Westcott) | 99 | 219 | 224 | 9 | 1 | |
| +FLH Mooney | b Ironside | 4 | 41 | 45 | - | - | |
| AR MacGibbon | c McGlew b Ironside | 8 | 12 | 13 | 1 | - | |
| EW Dempster | c Endean b Ironside | 0 | 15 | 21 | - | - | |
| IB Leggat | c McGlew b Tayfield | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| W Bell | not out | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | |
| Extras | (14 b, 3 lb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 649 minutes, 165.3 overs) | 505 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-126 (Chapple, 53.2 ov), 2-145 (Rabone, 65.7 ov), 3-239 (Poore, 98.3 ov), 4-271 (Sutcliffe, 109.1 ov), 5-447 (Reid, 146.1 ov), 6-472 (Mooney, 157.5 ov), 7-490 (MacGibbon, 161.1 ov), 8-505 (Beck, 164.2 ov), 9-505 (Leggat, 164.6 ov), 10-505 (Dempster, 165.3 ov) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Adcock | 29 | 3 | 105 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ironside | 46.3 | 16 | 117 | 4 | - | - | |
| Murray | 34 | 8 | 93 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tayfield | 33 | 10 | 80 | 1 | - | - | |
| van Ryneveld | 23 | 1 | 93 | 2 | - | - | |
| South Africa first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | c Sutcliffe b MacGibbon | 86 | 300 | 273 | 7 | - | |
| +JHB Waite | lbw b MacGibbon | 8 | 32 | 25 | - | - | |
| RJ Westcott | c Leggat b MacGibbon | 2 | 10 | 10 | - | - | |
| WR Endean | c Sutcliffe b MacGibbon | 33 | 110 | 108 | 3 | - | |
| RA McLean | c Mooney b Rabone | 9 | 34 | 28 | 1 | - | |
| CB van Ryneveld | c Mooney b Rabone | 23 | 133 | 122 | 3 | - | |
| *JE Cheetham | b Rabone | 89 | 219 | 182 | 9 | 2 | |
| ARA Murray | lbw b Rabone | 6 | 37 | 30 | 1 | - | |
| HJ Tayfield | c Leggat b Rabone | 34 | 105 | 106 | 3 | - | |
| DEJ Ironside | c MacGibbon b Rabone | 10 | 41 | 34 | 1 | - | |
| NAT Adcock | not out | 8 | 10 | 16 | - | - | |
| Extras | (6 b, 6 lb, 6 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 474 minutes, 127.7 overs) | 326 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Waite, 6.6 ov), 2-23 (Westcott, 9 ov), 3-82 (Endean, 36.6 ov), 4-101 (McLean, 44 ov), 5-172 (McGlew, 72.7 ov), 6-180 (van Ryneveld, 79.3 ov), 7-204 (Murray, 87.3 ov), 8-299 (Tayfield, 119 ov), 9-313 (Cheetham, 123.5 ov), 10-326 (Ironside, 127.7 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacGibbon | 33 | 13 | 71 | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Reid | 20 | 7 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leggat | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bell | 18 | 5 | 77 | 0 | - | 4 | |
| Rabone | 38.7 | 10 | 68 | 6 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 8 | 3 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sutcliffe | 5 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Poore | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Africa second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ McGlew | c Chapple b Poore | 28 | 91 | 105 | 3 | - | |
| +JHB Waite | st Mooney b Rabone | 16 | 50 | 52 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Westcott | b Dempster | 62 | 156 | 111 | 10 | - | |
| WR Endean | not out | 34 | 88 | 91 | 2 | - | |
| RA McLean | not out | 18 | 31 | 14 | 2 | - | |
| CB van Ryneveld | did not bat | ||||||
| *JE Cheetham | did not bat | ||||||
| ARA Murray | did not bat | ||||||
| HJ Tayfield | did not bat | ||||||
| DEJ Ironside | did not bat | ||||||
| NAT Adcock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 180 minutes, 54 overs) | 159 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26 (Waite, 14 ov), 2-57 (McGlew, 25.7 ov), 3-139 (Westcott, 48.6 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| MacGibbon | 8 | 4 | 15 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Reid | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rabone | 10 | 6 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sutcliffe | 7 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Poore | 12 | 1 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bell | 6 | 2 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 6 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chapple | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> IB Leggat made his debut in Test matches
--> W Bell made his debut in Test matches
--> RJ Westcott made his debut in Test matches
--> IB Leggat made his last appearance in Test matches
--> GO Rabone (1) 50 in 229 balls with 5 fours
--> GO Rabone (1) passed 500 runs in Test matches when he reached 55
--> ME Chapple (1) passed his previous highest score of 22 in Test matches
--> ME Chapple (1) 50 in 154 balls with 2 fours
--> B Sutcliffe (1) 50 in 113 balls with 5 fours
--> JR Reid (1) 50 in 120 balls, 102 minutes with 6 fours
--> JR Reid (1) passed his previous highest score of 93 in Test matches
--> JR Reid (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> JR Reid (1) 100 in 172 balls, 159 minutes with 13 fours and 1 six
--> JEF Beck (1) passed his previous highest score of 16 in Test matches
--> JEF Beck (1) 50 in 116 balls with 7 fours
--> JEF Beck (1) passed his previous highest score of 53 in First-Class matches
--> DJ McGlew (1) 50 in 199 balls with 4 fours
--> JE Cheetham (1) 50 in 115 balls with 7 fours and 1 six
--> JE Cheetham (1) passed his previous highest score of 66 in Test matches
--> JE Cheetham (1) passed 4500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 59
--> RJ Westcott (2) 50 in 121 balls with 9 fours
--> CB van Ryneveld reached 150 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed GO Rabone, his 2nd wicket in the New Zealand first innings
--> GO Rabone achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches when he dismissed HJ Tayfield in the South Africa first innings (previous best was 3-62)
--> GO Rabone achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Test matches in the South Africa first innings
JR Reid went from 19* to 135* between lunch and tea on day 2.
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