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| Venue | East Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 15th, 22nd, 29th March 1890 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | East Melbourne won by an innings and 238 runs |
| Umpires | E Barrass, T Bleasdale |
| Close of play day 1 | East Melbourne (1) 36/2 (Harry 6*, Moore 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | East Melbourne (1) 333/9 (Lear 38*, Cowen 7*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Mills | b Worrall | 4 | |||||
| +R Tandy | c Harry b Lewis | 55 | |||||
| WR Smith | b Lewis | 14 | |||||
| *WJC Brown | run out | 0 | |||||
| T Ormerod | b Lewis | 10 | |||||
| WA Greenwood | c Cowen b Laver | 4 | |||||
| TH Smith | b Lewis | 0 | |||||
| AE McLennan | b Lewis | 8 | |||||
| P Jones | run out | 2 | |||||
| HE Harwood | not out | 0 | |||||
| TR Bloomfield | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 59 overs) | 102 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-41, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-102 (59 ov) | |||||||
| East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Worrall | 17 | 7 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Laver | 14 | 4 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lewis | 18 | 6 | 33 | 5 | - | - | |
| Flynn | 10 | 4 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| East Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PA McAlister | b Mills | 10 | |||||
| J Worrall | c Mills b Tandy | 14 | |||||
| +J Harry | c Bloomfield b Brown | 116 | |||||
| J Moore | st Tandy b Ormerod | 22 | |||||
| *PM Lewis | st Tandy b Ormerod | 4 | |||||
| FJ Laver | b Brown | 4 | |||||
| SA McMichael | run out | 66 | |||||
| T Flynn | b Bloomfield | 0 | |||||
| F Lear | not out | 61 | |||||
| FS Broadbent | b Tandy | 21 | |||||
| J Cowen | b Ormerod | 50 | |||||
| Extras | (21 b, 6 lb, 5 w) | 32 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 101 overs) | 400 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-115, 4-?, 5-128, 6-248, 7-?, 8-269, 9-321, 10-400 (101 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Tandy | 26 | 7 | 93 | 2 | - | ||
| Mills | 19 | 3 | 68 | 1 | - | ||
| Bloomfield | 22 | 1 | 84 | 1 | - | ||
| Ormerod | 14 | 1 | 58 | 3 | - | ||
| Brown | 15 | 5 | 42 | 2 | - | ||
| Jones | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +R Tandy | b Flynn | 30 | |||||
| G Mills | c Lewis b Laver | 4 | |||||
| WA Greenwood | c and b Laver | 0 | |||||
| T Ormerod | not out | 23 | |||||
| P Jones | c Lewis b Flynn | 0 | |||||
| TR Bloomfield | absent | ||||||
| HE Harwood | absent | ||||||
| AE McLennan | absent hurt | ||||||
| TH Smith | absent | ||||||
| *WJC Brown | absent | ||||||
| WR Smith | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 w) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 23.3 overs) | 60 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-60 (23.3 ov) | |||||||
| East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Laver | 12 | 3 | 30 | 2 | - | ||
| Lewis | 10 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | ||
| Flynn | 1.3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | ||