Captain:

Home Grounds used:
Lancaster Park, Christchurch

Away Grounds visited:
Basin Reserve, Wellington; Eden Park, Auckland; Seddon Park, Hamilton

First-Class playing record:
P 6     W 1     D 3     L 2

Click on these links for the season's First-Class scorecards and results
or First-Class batting averages or First-Class bowling averages

16 players appeared in First-Class matches for Canterbury in 1956/57:
ME Chapple; JW D'Arcy; BMJ Dineen; RT Dowker; AG Duckmanton; DL Gallop; GN Gearry; SC Guillen; PGZ Harris; BA Haworth; JW Kiddey; AR MacGibbon; KJ McNicholl; MB Poore; DJ Reid; IM Sinclair.

3 players made their debut for Canterbury in these matches in 1956/57:
BMJ Dineen; DL Gallop; JW Kiddey.