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| Venue | Albert Ground, Melbourne on 30th November, 7th December 1968 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Melbourne 6; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | LH Hawkes, HT Maguire |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 8/1 (Howe 0*, Smith 6*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CE Reid | c O'Neill b Swanson | 67 | |||||
| K Cassidy | lbw b Simmons | 22 | |||||
| RG Lloyd | c Goulding b Taylor | 95 | |||||
| *GD Watson | c Tobin b Swanson | 10 | |||||
| IR Huntington | b Goulding | 1 | |||||
| JR Chapman | c Taylor b Goulding | 0 | |||||
| +NM Carlyon | b Swanson | 3 | |||||
| MHN Walker | b Swanson | 7 | |||||
| BD Reid | not out | 17 | |||||
| CJ McKenzie | b Taylor | 0 | |||||
| GW Boyd | c Johnston b Swanson | 8 | |||||
| Extras | (3 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 61.6 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-55, 2-150, 3-166, 4-181, 5-183, 6-192, 7-208, 8-208, 9-208, 10-233 (61.6 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Goulding | 13 | 1 | 44 | 2 | - | ||
| Taylor | 13 | 1 | 51 | 2 | - | ||
| Brown | 6 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | ||
| Simmons | 9 | 2 | 40 | 1 | - | ||
| Swanson | 20.6 | 2 | 61 | 5 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *I Monks | lbw b Walker | 2 | |||||
| RFR Howe | c and b Walker | 17 | |||||
| DJM Smith | b Walker | 17 | |||||
| GJ Brown | b Walker | 5 | |||||
| IJ Taylor | b Boyd | 4 | |||||
| JD Swanson | c Watson b Walker | 90 | |||||
| GT Tobin | run out | 45 | |||||
| +TS O'Neill | c Lloyd b Watson | 3 | |||||
| GC Johnston | c Carlyon b Walker | 0 | |||||
| PH Goulding | not out | 27 | |||||
| IJ Simmons | c Carlyon b Lloyd | 12 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.4 overs) | 225 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-28, 3-36, 4-41, 5-45, 6-158, 7-165, 8-168, 9-191, 10-225 (68.4 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Walker | 26 | 4 | 74 | 6 | - | - | |
| Watson | 17 | 5 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| Boyd | 8 | 1 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| BD Reid | 6 | 1 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| McKenzie | 8 | 2 | 47 | 0 | - | - | |
| Huntington | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lloyd | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BD Reid | not out | 7 | |||||
| CJ McKenzie | c Goulding b Monks | 1 | |||||
| JR Chapman | not out | 0 | |||||
| CE Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| K Cassidy | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Lloyd | did not bat | ||||||
| *GD Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| IR Huntington | did not bat | ||||||
| +NM Carlyon | did not bat | ||||||
| MHN Walker | did not bat | ||||||
| GW Boyd | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 4 overs) | 8 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8 (McKenzie) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Johnston | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Tobin | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Monks | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||
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