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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 6th, 13th February 1954 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Melbourne won by 10 wickets |
| Points | Melbourne 10; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | EJ Hamid, DE Smith |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne (1) 145/4 (Fairbairn 21*, Daniel 0*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WR Reeves | b Fairbairn | 5 | |||||
| HL Nield | not out | 46 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| MR Clegg | b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| M Dillon | b Fairbairn | 5 | |||||
| AH McPherson | lbw b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| FG Leslie | lbw b Daniel | 17 | |||||
| GA English | c Fairbairn b Daniel | 4 | |||||
| GM McPherson | b Daniel | 0 | |||||
| JA Ross | c Fairbairn b Figgis | 4 | |||||
| IT Clay | b Anderson | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 27.6 overs) | 88 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-9, 3-9, 4-19, 5-19, 6-47, 7-53, 8-85, 9-86, 10-88 (27.6 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 5.6 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | ||
| Fairbairn | 7 | 2 | 26 | 5 | - | ||
| Daniel | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | - | ||
| Figgis | 5 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | ||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Solomon | lbw b Dillon | 24 | |||||
| MR Haysom | c Nunn b Ross | 62 | |||||
| LF Kline | b Clegg | 17 | |||||
| *CL Fairbairn | not out | 21 | |||||
| JHM Symons | run out | 19 | |||||
| J Daniel | not out | 0 | |||||
| RB Stevens | did not bat | ||||||
| CN Crompton | did not bat | ||||||
| RT Figgis | did not bat | ||||||
| DT Anderson | did not bat | ||||||
| +D Peters | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 28 overs) | 145 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63, 2-105, 3-105, 4-145 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| GM McPherson | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Clay | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dillon | 7 | 2 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ross | 8 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Clegg | 4 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WR Reeves | c Symons b Anderson | 0 | |||||
| HL Nield | c Peters b Anderson | 4 | |||||
| FG Leslie | c sub b Fairbairn | 1 | |||||
| M Dillon | b Fairbairn | 5 | |||||
| MR Clegg | lbw b Daniel | 11 | |||||
| AH McPherson | b Daniel | 23 | |||||
| GA English | b Fairbairn | 3 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Stevens b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| GM McPherson | c Solomon b Figgis | 30 | |||||
| JA Ross | c sub b Fairbairn | 4 | |||||
| IT Clay | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 14.7 overs) | 84 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-5, 3-9, 4-12, 5-45, 6-48, 7-50, 8-56, 9-78, 10-84 (14.7 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | - | ||
| Fairbairn | 7 | 2 | 35 | 5 | - | ||
| Daniel | 4 | 0 | 31 | 2 | - | ||
| Figgis | 0.7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | ||
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Solomon | not out | 4 | |||||
| MR Haysom | not out | 24 | |||||
| LF Kline | did not bat | ||||||
| *CL Fairbairn | did not bat | ||||||
| JHM Symons | did not bat | ||||||
| J Daniel | did not bat | ||||||
| RB Stevens | did not bat | ||||||
| CN Crompton | did not bat | ||||||
| RT Figgis | did not bat | ||||||
| DT Anderson | did not bat | ||||||
| +D Peters | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 5.3 overs) | 28 | |||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Clay | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||
| GM McPherson | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||
| Dillon | 0.3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
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