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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 11th, 18th February 1956 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Footscray won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 0; Footscray 6 |
| Umpires | RX Casey, DE Smith |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 257/8 innings closed |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DH Foster | b Day | 54 | |||||
| I Monks | c Close b Stewart | 24 | |||||
| M Dillon | c Murray b Marks | 21 | |||||
| NL Allanson | run out | 110 | |||||
| FG Leslie | b Close | 7 | |||||
| B Ogle | lbw b Stewart | 14 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Marks b Stewart | 3 | |||||
| GM McPherson | b Eastwood | 7 | |||||
| JA Ross | not out | 5 | |||||
| JL Crouch | not out | 7 | |||||
| IT Clay | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 61.1 overs) | 257 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39, 2-82, 3-128, 4-145, 5-191, 6-205, 7-239, 8-245 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Day | 17 | 2 | 59 | 1 | - | - | |
| Close | 11 | 2 | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stewart | 17 | 1 | 89 | 3 | - | - | |
| Marks | 8 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Perussich | 0.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Eastwood | 8 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Hansen | b Ross | 50 | |||||
| IC Priddle | b Ross | 56 | |||||
| *GJ Murray | not out | 83 | |||||
| KH Eastwood | c Dillon b Ross | 8 | |||||
| +BH Wright | c Crouch b Dillon | 14 | |||||
| EG Perussich | b Dillon | 39 | |||||
| M Shields | not out | 10 | |||||
| AC Day | did not bat | ||||||
| IC Stewart | did not bat | ||||||
| AN Marks | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Close | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 55 overs) | 270 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-102, 2-119, 3-137, 4-165, 5-245 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McPherson | 11 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | ||
| Clay | 14 | 0 | 68 | 0 | - | ||
| Ross | 13 | 0 | 72 | 3 | - | ||
| Crouch | 8 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | ||
| Dillon | 7 | 0 | 23 | 2 | - | ||
| Foster | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | ||
| Leslie | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | ||
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