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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 5th, 6th March 1976 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Western Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Western Australia won by 8 wickets |
| Points | Victoria 5 (Bowling 5); Western Australia 14 (Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | KJ Carmody, RC Isherwood |
| Scorers | BW Bright (Victoria), MP Ringham (Western Australia) |
| Close of play day 1 | Western Australia (1) 142/8 (Lillee 20*, Malone 7*) |
| Victoria first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PA Hibbert | b Malone | 5 | 35 | 1 | - | ||
| RG Matthews | c Marsh b Malone | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| DJ Rolfe | c Marsh b Malone | 0 | 8 | - | - | ||
| DF Whatmore | c Brayshaw b Lillee | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| *+RD Robinson | c sub (TM Alderman) b Lillee | 0 | 10 | - | - | ||
| DJ Broad | c Charlesworth b Lillee | 26 | 80 | 3 | - | ||
| TJ Laughlin | c Brayshaw b Malone | 8 | 34 | - | - | ||
| RJ Bright | b Lillee | 0 | 15 | - | - | ||
| MHN Walker | c Langer b Malone | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| JD Higgs | not out | 0 | 16 | - | - | ||
| AG Hurst | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 w) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 111 minutes, 19.1 overs) | 44 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Matthews), 2-6 (Whatmore), 3-6 (Robinson), 4-6 (Hibbert), 5-26 (Laughlin), 6-31 (Bright), 7-36 (Walker), 8-44 (Broad), 9-44 (Rolfe, 19.1 ov) | |||||||
| Western Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 10 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 1 | - | |
| Malone | 9.1 | 2 | 28 | 5 | - | - | |
| Western Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BM Laird | run out (Hibbert->Higgs) | 8 | 38 | - | - | ||
| RI Charlesworth | c Bright b Hurst | 15 | 61 | 1 | - | ||
| WJ Edwards | run out (sub->Robinson) | 17 | 59 | 1 | - | ||
| KJ Hughes | lbw b Hurst | 1 | 4 | - | - | ||
| RS Langer | b Hurst | 10 | 46 | 1 | - | ||
| IJ Brayshaw | c Higgs b Hurst | 28 | 90 | 3 | - | ||
| *+RW Marsh | c Hibbert b Walker | 13 | 35 | 2 | - | ||
| B Yardley | b Bright | 10 | 13 | 1 | - | ||
| DK Lillee | c and b Hurst | 20 | 52 | 1 | - | ||
| MF Malone | b Higgs | 7 | 21 | 1 | - | ||
| RG Paulsen | not out | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (8 lb, 5 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 216 minutes, 40.2 overs) | 142 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Laird), 2-30 (Charlesworth), 3-32 (Hughes), 4-51 (Langer), 5-63 (Edwards), 6-92 (Marsh), 7-103 (Yardley), 8-124 (Brayshaw), 9-142 (Lillee), 10-142 (Malone, 40.2 ov) | |||||||
| Victoria bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hurst | 13.2 | 1 | 50 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Walker | 13 | 1 | 54 | 1 | - | 4 | |
| Bright | 10 | 3 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Laughlin | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Higgs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Victoria second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PA Hibbert | c Yardley b Lillee | 10 | 25 | 1 | - | ||
| RG Matthews | c Marsh b Malone | 8 | 19 | 1 | - | ||
| DJ Rolfe | c Langer b Lillee | 13 | 74 | 1 | - | ||
| DF Whatmore | b Malone | 8 | 32 | 1 | - | ||
| TJ Laughlin | lbw b Brayshaw | 1 | 7 | - | - | ||
| DJ Broad | c Marsh b Lillee | 16 | 94 | 1 | - | ||
| *+RD Robinson | c Marsh b Langer | 26 | 49 | 4 | - | ||
| RJ Bright | c Lillee b Malone | 13 | 57 | 2 | - | ||
| MHN Walker | c Laird b Paulsen | 25 | 53 | 3 | - | ||
| JD Higgs | not out | 15 | 15 | 3 | - | ||
| AG Hurst | run out (Hughes->Paulsen) | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 218 minutes, 42.3 overs) | 135 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Matthews), 2-18 (Hibbert), 3-29 (Whatmore), 4-30 (Laughlin), 5-44 (Rolfe), 6-81 (Broad), 7-83 (Robinson), 8-110 (Bright), 9-135 (Walker), 10-135 (Hurst, 42.3 ov) | |||||||
| Western Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 13 | 2 | 38 | 3 | - | - | |
| Malone | 15 | 1 | 55 | 3 | - | - | |
| Brayshaw | 9 | 1 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Langer | 5 | 3 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Paulsen | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | |
| Western Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BM Laird | not out | 13 | 55 | 1 | - | ||
| WJ Edwards | b Hurst | 19 | 27 | 4 | - | ||
| KJ Hughes | b Hurst | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| RS Langer | not out | 5 | 24 | - | - | ||
| RI Charlesworth | did not bat | ||||||
| IJ Brayshaw | did not bat | ||||||
| *+RW Marsh | did not bat | ||||||
| B Yardley | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Lillee | did not bat | ||||||
| MF Malone | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Paulsen | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 2 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 55 minutes, 8.7 overs) | 40 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Edwards), 2-25 (Hughes) | |||||||
| Victoria bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hurst | 4.7 | 0 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Walker | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | - | 2 | |