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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 10th, 17th January 1948 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Melbourne 3; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | HJ Hale, RJJ Wright |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 283/8 innings closed |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KD Meuleman | st IH McDonald b Meikle | 54 | |||||
| GR Thoms | c Kinnear b Fairbairn | 9 | |||||
| +HA Nunn | c RM Holten b Daniel | 8 | |||||
| KT Rawle | st IH McDonald b Meikle | 35 | |||||
| *JL Stephens | c Dowsley b Kinnear | 3 | |||||
| OI Lovelock | c CV Holten b Meikle | 29 | |||||
| NC Blundell | c CC McDonald b Green | 76 | |||||
| NL Allanson | not out | 56 | |||||
| PN Arnold | b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| GM McPherson | not out | 2 | |||||
| M Dillon | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 63 overs) | 283 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10, 2-27, 3-111, 4-118, 5-126, 6-168, 7-275, 8-279 | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daniel | 14 | 2 | 58 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fairbairn | 14 | 0 | 49 | 2 | - | - | |
| Meikle | 18 | 0 | 93 | 3 | - | - | |
| Kinnear | 15 | 2 | 51 | 1 | - | - | |
| Green | 2 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *H Dowsley | b Arnold | 44 | |||||
| CC McDonald | b Blundell | 67 | |||||
| JG Green | c Meuleman b Blundell | 144 | |||||
| GS Meikle | lbw b Stephens | 0 | |||||
| +IH McDonald | c Blundell b Stephens | 9 | |||||
| RM Holten | not out | 58 | |||||
| JB Morgan | c Rawle b Allanson | 17 | |||||
| J Daniel | not out | 1 | |||||
| CV Holten | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Fairbairn | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Kinnear | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 1 lb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 65 overs) | 346 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-86, 2-157, 3-158, 4-174, 5-314, 6-345 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McPherson | 10 | 1 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dillon | 8 | 0 | 37 | 0 | - | - | |
| Blundell | 15 | 0 | 103 | 2 | - | - | |
| Arnold | 16 | 0 | 70 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rawle | 7 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stephens | 7 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | |
| Allanson | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |
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