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| Venue | North Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 23rd, 30th November, 7th December 1889 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | North Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | South Melbourne won by an innings and 10 runs |
| Umpires | Frayne, PH Roy |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 24/0 (EA Barrett 17*, Tarrant 6*) |
| Close of play day 2 | South Melbourne (1) 262/8 (Lord 6*, Rains 7*) |
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EE Bean | b Kemp | 6 | |||||
| JH Stuckey | b Morris | 29 | |||||
| W Johnson | b Morris | 12 | |||||
| JA Howlett | b Bowman | 33 | |||||
| J Smith | run out | 27 | |||||
| *+RS Houston | b JE Barrett | 0 | |||||
| JT Howlett | run out | 24 | |||||
| H Chrystal | b Biddolph | 3 | |||||
| W Reade | not out | 13 | |||||
| J Carlton | c Slight b Trott | 8 | |||||
| AJ Paterson | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 90 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-130, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-160 (90 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kemp | 17 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| Morris | 24 | 9 | 32 | 2 | - | - | |
| Trott | 15 | 2 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bowman | 8 | 3 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| JE Barrett | 13 | 4 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Biddolph | 13 | 3 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EA Barrett | c and b Bean | 38 | |||||
| WA Tarrant | b Carlton | 22 | |||||
| GHS Trott | c Houston b Johnson | 37 | |||||
| JE Barrett | c Stuckey b Johnson | 62 | |||||
| S Morris | c [unknown] b Smith | 47 | |||||
| ANA Bowman | c Chrystal b Smith | 3 | |||||
| *J Slight | run out | 14 | |||||
| GH Biddolph | b Johnson | 6 | |||||
| G Lord | b Johnson | 9 | |||||
| +AG Rains | not out | 15 | |||||
| BCE Kemp | b Carlton | 16 | |||||
| Extras | (17 b, 3 lb) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 108.4 overs) | 289 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-289 (108.4 ov) | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Johnson | 28 | 4 | 83 | 4 | - | - | |
| Carlton | 20.4 | 2 | 56 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bean | 23 | 10 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chrystal | 10 | 3 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| JT Howlett | 10 | 4 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Houston | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Smith | 13 | 5 | 27 | 2 | - | - | |
| North Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *+RS Houston | b Kemp | 0 | |||||
| JH Stuckey | b Kemp | 30 | |||||
| EE Bean | lbw b Morris | 4 | |||||
| JA Howlett | c Biddolph b Kemp | 25 | |||||
| W Johnson | c Tarrant b Kemp | 4 | |||||
| W Reade | b Kemp | 4 | |||||
| AJ Paterson | b Biddolph | 4 | |||||
| J Carlton | lbw b Biddolph | 11 | |||||
| JT Howlett | b Kemp | 6 | |||||
| J Smith | not out | 15 | |||||
| H Chrystal | b Morris | 11 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 62 overs) | 119 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-119 (62 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kemp | 29 | 7 | 60 | 6 | - | - | |
| Morris | 21 | 6 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Biddolph | 10 | 1 | 17 | 2 | - | - | |
| JE Barrett | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |