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| Venue | Willowmoore Park Main Oval, Benoni on 20th, 21st, 22nd December 1956 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | North Eastern Transvaal won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | CD Coote, B Hough |
| Close of play day 1 | North Eastern Transvaal (1) 42/4 (Helfrich 18*, Seyfried 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 148/2 (Compton 71*, Cowdrey 3*; 25 overs) |
| North Eastern Transvaal first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PC Davies | b Wardle | 10 | 84 | - | - | ||
| JC Farham | b Statham | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | |
| CD Abrams | b Statham | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| *RA Richardson | c Taylor b Statham | 3 | 21 | - | - | ||
| K Helfrich | c Tyson b Wardle | 71 | 148 | 7 | - | ||
| FA Seyfried | lbw b Statham | 1 | 12 | - | - | ||
| SF Burke | b Tyson | 7 | 49 | 1 | - | ||
| HE Patterson | st Taylor b Wardle | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| BJ McBride | c Cowdrey b Wardle | 12 | 32 | 1 | - | ||
| GV Middlewick | b Lock | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||
| +RD Smith | not out | 4 | 12 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (6 b, 5 lb, 5 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 187 minutes, 35.4 overs) | 125 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Farham, 0.5 ov), 2-1 (Abrams, 0.6 ov), 3-6 (Richardson), 4-41 (Davies), 5-49 (Seyfried), 6-84 (Burke), 7-85 (Patterson), 8-113 (Helfrich), 9-117 (Middlewick), 10-125 (McBride, 35.4 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Statham | 10 | 1 | 37 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Tyson | 10 | 3 | 25 | 1 | - | 5 | |
| Loader | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wardle | 7.4 | 3 | 22 | 4 | - | - | |
| Lock | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PE Richardson | b Helfrich | 52 | 104 | 4 | - | ||
| ASM Oakman | b Middlewick | 21 | 46 | 3 | - | ||
| DCS Compton | not out | 71 | 11 | - | |||
| MC Cowdrey | not out | 3 | - | - | |||
| *DJ Insole | did not bat | ||||||
| +B Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| GAR Lock | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Wardle | did not bat | ||||||
| FH Tyson | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Loader | did not bat | ||||||
| JB Statham | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 nb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 25 overs) | 148 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30 (Oakman), 2-126 (Richardson) | |||||||
| North Eastern Transvaal bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Middlewick | 6 | 1 | 18 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| McBride | 6 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Burke | 7 | 0 | 51 | 0 | - | - | |
| Abrams | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Helfrich | 3 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |