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| Venue | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on 1st, 3rd, 4th January 1977 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Natal won by 5 wickets |
| Points | Eastern Province 5 (Batting 2, Bowling 3); Natal 15 (Batting 1, Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | OT Sadie, BC van Gend |
| Close of play day 1 | Natal (1) 42/1 (Jones 29*, Groves 10*; 21 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Eastern Province (2) 153/8 (Cowley 34*, Armitage 24*; 70 overs) |
| Eastern Province first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SJ Bezuidenhout | lbw b Procter | 8 | 38 | - | - | ||
| *CP Wilkins | b Procter | 11 | 27 | 2 | - | ||
| +KS McEwan | c Procter b Henwood | 23 | 77 | 4 | - | ||
| AL Biggs | c Smith b Henwood | 76 | 202 | 6 | - | ||
| RJD Whyte | c and b Harvey | 44 | 83 | 4 | 1 | ||
| KP Reid | c Madsen b Procter | 18 | 80 | 2 | - | ||
| DJ Brickett | c Mathews b Henwood | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| GS Cowley | c Fotheringham b Henwood | 7 | 15 | - | 1 | ||
| RLS Armitage | hit wkt b van der Bijl | 11 | 58 | 2 | - | ||
| P Carrick | c Fotheringham b Lilley | 24 | 41 | 2 | - | ||
| WK Watson | not out | 0 | 5 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (1 b, 9 lb, 5 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 318 minutes, 96 overs) | 238 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Wilkins), 2-23 (Bezuidenhout), 3-75 (McEwan), 4-144 (Whyte), 5-191 (Biggs), 6-191 (Brickett), 7-199 (Cowley), 8-200 (Reid), 9-238 (Carrick), 10-238 (Armitage, 96 ov) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Procter | 21 | 5 | 54 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| van der Bijl | 22 | 8 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Lilley | 15 | 2 | 38 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Henwood | 33 | 13 | 66 | 4 | - | - | |
| Harvey | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Natal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MG Mathews | lbw b Watson | 0 | 9 | - | - | ||
| A Jones | c Wilkins b Armitage | 99 | 228 | 12 | 1 | ||
| BS Groves | st McEwan b Carrick | 19 | 76 | 2 | - | ||
| HR Fotheringham | c Reid b Biggs | 31 | 10 | 5 | - | ||
| MJ Procter | b Carrick | 3 | 9 | - | - | ||
| +AJS Smith | b Biggs | 9 | 32 | - | - | ||
| MB Madsen | st McEwan b Biggs | 58 | 108 | 6 | - | ||
| NH Harvey | lbw b Biggs | 3 | 3 | - | - | ||
| AR Lilley | lbw b Watson | 20 | 35 | 2 | 1 | ||
| *VAP van der Bijl | c Carrick b Biggs | 8 | 31 | 1 | - | ||
| PP Henwood | not out | 5 | 8 | 1 | - | ||
| Extras | (10 b, 8 lb, 6 nb) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 309 minutes, 105.5 overs) | 279 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Mathews), 2-66 (Groves), 3-126 (Fotheringham), 4-133 (Procter), 5-161 (Smith), 6-181 (Jones), 7-204 (Harvey), 8-232 (Lilley), 9-266 (van der Bijl), 10-279 (Madsen, 105.5 ov) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Watson | 10 | 2 | 26 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cowley | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Biggs | 41.5 | 15 | 92 | 5 | - | - | |
| Carrick | 38 | 12 | 79 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Armitage | 10 | 3 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brickett | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Eastern Province second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SJ Bezuidenhout | b Procter | 6 | 48 | - | - | ||
| *CP Wilkins | c Groves b Henwood | 30 | 61 | 3 | - | ||
| +KS McEwan | b Procter | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| AL Biggs | c van der Bijl b Procter | 9 | 32 | - | - | ||
| RJD Whyte | b Procter | 24 | 27 | 3 | - | ||
| KP Reid | c van der Bijl b Henwood | 0 | 15 | - | - | ||
| P Carrick | b Procter | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| DJ Brickett | c Lilley b Procter | 15 | 22 | 2 | - | ||
| GS Cowley | c Fotheringham b Procter | 37 | 125 | 5 | - | ||
| RLS Armitage | lbw b Henwood | 26 | 102 | 3 | - | ||
| WK Watson | not out | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 b, 8 lb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 224 minutes, 82.2 overs) | 164 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-38 (Bezuidenhout), 2-38 (McEwan), 3-46 (Wilkins), 4-72 (Biggs), 5-75 (Whyte), 6-75 (Carrick), 7-79 (Reid), 8-97 (Brickett), 9-164 (Armitage), 10-164 (Cowley, 82.2 ov) | |||||||
| Natal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Procter | 37.2 | 14 | 77 | 7 | - | - | |
| van der Bijl | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lilley | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Henwood | 35 | 14 | 50 | 3 | - | - | |
| Madsen | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Natal second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MG Mathews | c Cowley b Carrick | 27 | 114 | 1 | - | ||
| BS Groves | st McEwan b Carrick | 34 | 74 | 5 | - | ||
| A Jones | c Whyte b Biggs | 17 | 28 | 1 | 1 | ||
| HR Fotheringham | lbw b Biggs | 6 | 27 | - | - | ||
| MJ Procter | c Cowley b Carrick | 5 | 11 | - | - | ||
| +AJS Smith | not out | 9 | 27 | 1 | - | ||
| MB Madsen | not out | 16 | 22 | 1 | - | ||
| NH Harvey | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Lilley | did not bat | ||||||
| *VAP van der Bijl | did not bat | ||||||
| PP Henwood | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 1 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 154 minutes, 54 overs) | 124 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63 (Groves), 2-83 (Jones), 3-91 (Mathews), 4-99 (Procter), 5-99 (Fotheringham) | |||||||
| Eastern Province bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Watson | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wilkins | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Biggs | 19 | 4 | 47 | 2 | - | - | |
| Carrick | 22 | 11 | 32 | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Armitage | 9 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> AL Biggs (1) 50 in 151 minutes with 2 fours
--> RJD Whyte (1) passed his previous highest score of 19 in First-Class matches
--> A Jones (1) 50 in 121 minutes with 8 fours
--> MB Madsen (1) 50 in 94 minutes with 5 fours
--> AR Lilley (1) passed 500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 14
--> P Carrick reached 250 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed BS Groves, his 1st wicket in the Natal second innings
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