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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 10th, 17th February 1968 (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 | RC Isherwood, KM Millard |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 278 all out |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *I Monks | c Huntington b Walker | 34 | |||||
| RFR Howe | c Lloyd b Walker | 13 | |||||
| DJM Smith | b Bedford | 38 | |||||
| GJ Brown | b Walker | 43 | |||||
| JD Swanson | b Walker | 41 | |||||
| JA Peters | c Huntington b Crow | 47 | |||||
| BG Davis | run out | 4 | |||||
| IJ Taylor | c Cassidy b Crow | 33 | |||||
| +TS O'Neill | b Crow | 0 | |||||
| MR Grant | st Reid b Bedford | 15 | |||||
| IJ Simmons | not out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 69.5 overs) | 278 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31, 2-61, 3-113, 4-150, 5-185, 6-192, 7-253, 8-253, 9-274, 10-278 (69.5 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Walker | 20 | 4 | 58 | 4 | - | ||
| Twyford | 6 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | ||
| Crow | 11 | 1 | 34 | 3 | - | ||
| McKenzie | 10 | 3 | 27 | 0 | - | ||
| Huntington | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | ||
| Bedford | 18.5 | 0 | 100 | 2 | - | ||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| K Cassidy | c Howe b Grant | 61 | |||||
| JI Grange | c Simmons b Davis | 67 | |||||
| RG Lloyd | lbw b Simmons | 64 | |||||
| PLA Bedford | c O'Neill b Davis | 48 | |||||
| ER Williams | c Howe b Davis | 13 | |||||
| +CE Reid | not out | 35 | |||||
| *IR Huntington | b Howe | 8 | |||||
| DS Crow | lbw b Smith | 10 | |||||
| MHN Walker | not out | 1 | |||||
| CJ McKenzie | did not bat | ||||||
| PR Twyford | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 nb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 73 overs) | 308 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-113, 2-141, 3-220, 4-246, 5-258, 6-288, 7-307 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Brown | 8 | 1 | 34 | 0 | - | ||
| Taylor | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | ||
| Peters | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | ||
| Simmons | 18 | 4 | 66 | 1 | - | ||
| Grant | 19 | 3 | 73 | 1 | - | ||
| Davis | 14 | 1 | 73 | 3 | - | ||
| Smith | 4 | 0 | 15 | 1 | - | ||
| Howe | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| Monks | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | ||
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