Pitch: 70
Toss: England
An entertaining match, featuring a number of excellent performances, finished in a draw, though the crowd were mostly entertained by what they saw.
Some good middle order batting allowed New Zealand A from the loss of both openers for ducks in their 1st innings, while a century to Mike Atherton set up an England declaration.
Some good spin bowling by veteran John Emburey was the feature of the New Zealand A 2nd innings, before a declaration saw England set 200 off 43 overs to win on a wearing pitch.
England easily batted out time to leave the match drawn.
Man of the Match was Mike Atherton, his first innings century being the best batting of a match in which the bowlers generally had a good time of it.
Match Drawn
Man of the Match: M.A.Atherton
New Zealand A 287 all out (109.1 overs)
(M.J.Greatbatch 44, K.R.Rutherford 59, R.T.Latham 37, S.A.Thomson 79*, M.L.Sua 49
; D.E.Malcolm 3-41, D.V.Lawrence 2-58, J.E.Emburey 2-77, G.A.Gooch 3-13)
England 211/5 declared (68 overs)
(M.A.Atherton 103*, A.J.Lamb 72; W.Watson 4-40)
New Zealand A 123/6 declared (45.3 overs)
(T.J.Franklin 41, K.R.Rutherford 31; I.T.Botham 2-24, J.E.Emburey 4-29)
England 144/3 (43 overs)
(G.A.Gooch 52, M.A.Atherton 20, G.A.Hick 20, I.T.Botham 40*)
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