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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 30th October, 6th November 1976 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Footscray won by 73 runs |
| Points | Footscray 6; Essendon 4 |
| Umpires | WH Howieson, R Mack |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 113/3 (MacWhirter 56*, Grant 1*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EB Gray | c Adams b Kirby | 22 | |||||
| RC Nicholls | c Davis b Kirby | 24 | |||||
| KW Stone | lbw b Kirby | 7 | |||||
| GA Joslin | b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| AJ Paone | c MacWhirter b Grant | 1 | |||||
| JN Shepherd | c Ford b Kirby | 9 | |||||
| GJA Hansen | c Howe b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| *+LH James | b Kirby | 20 | |||||
| AT Culph | not out | 38 | |||||
| WR Bennett | st Ford b Kirby | 1 | |||||
| PW Dredge | b Kirby | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (2 nb, 1 w) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36 overs) | 129 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-46, 2-56, 3-56, 4-57, 5-57, 6-63, 7-70, 8-91, 9-105, 10-129 (36 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daffey | 6 | 1 | 30 | 0 | |||
| Ross | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | |||
| Grant | 8 | 1 | 20 | 1 | |||
| Kirby | 13 | 0 | 34 | 9 | |||
| Adams | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | c Dredge b Culph | 22 | |||||
| RFR Howe | c James b Shepherd | 5 | |||||
| JA MacWhirter | c Nicholls b Culph | 66 | |||||
| *KH Davis | c Gray b Bennett | 22 | |||||
| JW Grant | c Joslin b Shepherd | 19 | |||||
| BA Nunn | c James b Culph | 0 | |||||
| +HH Ford | run out | 3 | |||||
| GT Ross | not out | 6 | |||||
| KW Kirby | c Gray b Shepherd | 2 | |||||
| KE Adams | c James b Shepherd | 0 | |||||
| PM Daffey | c James b Culph | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb, 2 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 45.6 overs) | 155 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-61, 3-105, 4-136, 5-138, 6-143, 7-147, 8-150, 9-150, 10-155 (45.6 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 8 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | ||
| Shepherd | 17 | 1 | 44 | 4 | - | ||
| Bennett | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| Culph | 17.6 | 2 | 63 | 4 | - | ||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EB Gray | b Daffey | 3 | |||||
| RC Nicholls | c Peter-Budge b Grant | 6 | |||||
| GA Joslin | c Grant b Adams | 26 | |||||
| KW Stone | c MacWhirter b Kirby | 32 | |||||
| JN Shepherd | c Grant b Ross | 53 | |||||
| *+LH James | c Peter-Budge b Kirby | 8 | |||||
| GJA Hansen | st Ford b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| AJ Paone | not out | 7 | |||||
| AT Culph | run out | 0 | |||||
| WR Bennett | st Ford b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| PW Dredge | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 27.4 overs) | 139 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-10, 3-57, 4-97, 5-129, 6-132, 7-132, 8-132, 9-138, 10-139 (27.4 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Grant | 6 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | ||
| Daffey | 4 | 1 | 23 | 1 | - | ||
| Adams | 8 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | ||
| Kirby | 8 | 0 | 44 | 4 | - | ||
| Ross | 1.4 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JA MacWhirter | c James b Dredge | 6 | |||||
| RFR Howe | c Stone b Dredge | 18 | |||||
| S Peter-Budge | lbw b Culph | 3 | |||||
| *KH Davis | c Shepherd b Dredge | 0 | |||||
| JW Grant | c James b Dredge | 4 | |||||
| GT Ross | c Paone b Culph | 0 | |||||
| BA Nunn | not out | 3 | |||||
| +HH Ford | c Paone b Culph | 4 | |||||
| KW Kirby | b Culph | 0 | |||||
| KE Adams | c Joslin b Culph | 2 | |||||
| PM Daffey | c Gray b Culph | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 23.2 overs) | 40 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12, 2-19, 3-27, 4-28, 5-31, 6-31, 7-36, 8-36, 9-38, 10-40 (23.2 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 12 | 4 | 22 | 4 | |||
| Culph | 11.2 | 4 | 18 | 6 | |||
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