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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 25th February, 4th March 1961 (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 | Essendon 0; Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | KA Elmslie, SV Westcott |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 122/4 (Peters 12*, Davis 0*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| I Monks | c McDonald b Sneddon | 44 | |||||
| MJ Wille | b Kline | 38 | |||||
| MJ Mitchell | st Longney b Kline | 15 | |||||
| JA Peters | lbw b Jones | 23 | |||||
| *NL Allanson | c Moore b Kline | 12 | |||||
| BG Davis | st Longney b Kline | 5 | |||||
| GM McPherson | c Kline b Jones | 7 | |||||
| KW Kirby | st Longney b Kline | 1 | |||||
| +BR Lugar | c Longney b Jones | 0 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | not out | 1 | |||||
| GL Sansom | b Kline | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.5 overs) | 148 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-50, 2-98, 3-98, 4-113, 5-130, 6-137, 7-139, 8-142, 9-147, 10-148 (44.5 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Guest | 7 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | ||
| Jones | 8 | 0 | 40 | 3 | - | ||
| Kline | 17.5 | 7 | 32 | 6 | - | ||
| Hammond | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | ||
| Sneddon | 7 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | ||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *CC McDonald | b Peters | 13 | |||||
| A Mackay | c Kirby b Peters | 9 | |||||
| IR Huntington | c Wille b Sansom | 100 | |||||
| MM Kenny | c Lugar b Peters | 5 | |||||
| GG Hammond | c and b McPherson | 11 | |||||
| PG Moore | b Kirby | 15 | |||||
| CEJ Guest | c Allanson b Sansom | 52 | |||||
| +GW Longney | b Sansom | 15 | |||||
| RJ Sneddon | not out | 11 | |||||
| LF Kline | not out | 4 | |||||
| IHW Jones | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 47 overs) | 244 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21, 2-26, 3-33, 4-53, 5-90, 6-210, 7-218, 8-233 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Peters | 9 | 0 | 51 | 3 | |||
| Thomson | 9 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| McPherson | 9 | 1 | 39 | 1 | |||
| Kirby | 9 | 0 | 53 | 1 | |||
| Sansom | 8 | 0 | 52 | 3 | |||
| Mitchell | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Monks | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
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