| f31881 | |
| Venue | Jan Smuts Ground, East London on 31st December 1977, 2nd, 3rd January 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Orange Free State won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Border 6 (Batting 2, Bowling 4); Orange Free State 4 (Batting 1, Bowling 3) |
| Umpires | OR Schoof, TW Townsend |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Close of play day 2 | Orange Free State (1) 15/0 (le Roux 9*, Blair 6*) |
| Border first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *IH McClenaghan | c East b le Roux | 38 | |||||
| ID Harty | b Schmidt | 2 | |||||
| R Kent | c East b Schmidt | 8 | |||||
| I Foulkes | c and b Strydom | 43 | |||||
| GW Nelson | run out | 10 | |||||
| DC McKenna | c Lusardi b Buss | 66 | 8 | 1 | |||
| SJ Schmidt | run out | 14 | |||||
| GM Gower | c Norton b Strydom | 51 | |||||
| GD Boucher | not out | 53 | |||||
| +TR Ball | not out | 3 | |||||
| KW Sansom | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 11 lb, 8 nb, 1 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 133 overs) | 314 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-13, 3-82, 4-101, 5-120, 6-136, 7-222, 8-282 | |||||||
| Orange Free State bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Schmidt | 22 | 6 | 50 | 2 | - | - | |
| Norton | 10 | 1 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Strydom | 30 | 7 | 91 | 2 | - | - | |
| Buss | 44 | 24 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| le Roux | 24 | 7 | 58 | 1 | - | - | |
| van Rensburg | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Orange Free State first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RA le Roux | c McKenna b Gower | 92 | |||||
| JH Blair | c McKenna b Schmidt | 11 | |||||
| LH Coetzee | b Gower | 17 | |||||
| C van Rensburg | c McKenna b Gower | 0 | |||||
| *+RJ East | c Ball b Sansom | 6 | |||||
| G Lusardi | run out | 30 | |||||
| WR Radford | c Boucher b Gower | 10 | |||||
| MA Buss | c Boucher b Foulkes | 21 | |||||
| E Schmidt | c Ball b Foulkes | 5 | |||||
| WT Strydom | b Sansom | 11 | |||||
| RG Norton | not out | 7 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb, 5 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 97.2 overs) | 222 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-60, 3-60, 4-71, 5-157, 6-173, 7-192, 8-193, 9-204, 10-222 (97.2 ov) | |||||||
| Border bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Schmidt | 9 | 4 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Boucher | 10 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gower | 32 | 13 | 47 | 4 | - | - | |
| Foulkes | 27.2 | 2 | 68 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sansom | 18 | 2 | 45 | 2 | - | - | |
| Nelson | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Border second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GW Nelson | not out | 51 | |||||
| ID Harty | c East b le Roux | 33 | |||||
| R Kent | not out | 21 | |||||
| *IH McClenaghan | did not bat | ||||||
| I Foulkes | did not bat | ||||||
| DC McKenna | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Schmidt | did not bat | ||||||
| GM Gower | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Boucher | did not bat | ||||||
| +TR Ball | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Sansom | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 33 overs) | 111 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-70 (Harty) | |||||||
| Orange Free State bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Schmidt | 8 | 1 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Norton | 9 | 4 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| le Roux | 9 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Coetzee | 6 | 3 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| East | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> WR Radford made his debut in First-Class matches
--> GM Gower (1) passed his previous highest score of 33 in First-Class matches
--> GD Boucher (1) passed his previous highest score of 20 in First-Class matches
--> RA le Roux (1) passed his previous highest score of 74 in First-Class matches
--> GW Nelson (2) passed 2000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 38
--> GM Gower achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Orange Free State first innings (previous best was 4-48)
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