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| Venue | Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 15th, 29th February, 7th March 1896 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Fitzroy won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Fitzroy won on first innings) |
| Umpires | HJ Alessio, WA Hopkinson |
| Close of play day 1 | Fitzroy (1) 286/5 (Tarrant 105*, Twentyman 33*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Richmond (1) 51/3 (Kelly 9*, Green 7*) |
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Mitchell | c Green b Gregory | 45 | |||||
| JJ Smith | c Howes b Gregory | 31 | |||||
| WN Wauhope | b Kelly | 9 | |||||
| WA Tarrant | c Reade b Green | 201 | |||||
| *J Drysdale | b Gregory | 4 | |||||
| M Ellis | c Kelly b Over | 50 | |||||
| E Twentyman | c Wade b Kelly | 85 | |||||
| FE Chesswas | run out | 8 | |||||
| G Beacham | b Green | 16 | |||||
| +FWA Spear | c Kelly b Haddrick | 12 | |||||
| P O'Loughlin | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 157.1 overs) | 471 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60, 2-85, 3-85, 4-97, 5-200, 6-410, 7-?, 8-461, 9-?, 10-471 (157.1 ov) | |||||||
| Richmond bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Green | 29 | 6 | 64 | 2 | - | - | |
| Haddrick | 25.1 | 5 | 79 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kelly | 38 | 7 | 109 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gregory | 27 | 4 | 88 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wade | 21 | 1 | 80 | 0 | - | - | |
| Over | 17 | 6 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Richmond first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AP Haddrick | c Twentyman b Beacham | 13 | |||||
| *AM Wade | c Chesswas b Beacham | 13 | |||||
| W Over | b Beacham | 1 | |||||
| RTB Kelly | st Spear b Beacham | 32 | |||||
| A Green | b Beacham | 7 | |||||
| HF Tritton | st Spear b O'Loughlin | 14 | |||||
| AE Whitehead | b Beacham | 52 | |||||
| +E Howes | c and b Drysdale | 9 | |||||
| AE Abud | c Chesswas b Beacham | 42 | |||||
| W Reade | st Spear b Beacham | 0 | |||||
| WT Gregory | not out | 8 | |||||
| Extras | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 67 overs) | 203 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-51, 5-?, 6-88, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-203 (67 ov) | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Beacham | 27 | ? | 73 | 8 | - | - | |
| Twentyman | 12 | ? | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 12 | ? | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| O'Loughlin | 8 | ? | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| Drysdale | 7 | ? | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ellis | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richmond second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AE Whitehead | not out | 41 | |||||
| RTB Kelly | c Smith b Ellis | 13 | |||||
| A Green | c Smith b O'Loughlin | 14 | |||||
| AE Abud | b Ellis | 3 | |||||
| AP Haddrick | b Smith | 10 | |||||
| HF Tritton | not out | 1 | |||||
| *AM Wade | did not bat | ||||||
| W Over | did not bat | ||||||
| +E Howes | did not bat | ||||||
| W Reade | did not bat | ||||||
| WT Gregory | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 21 overs) | 86 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-? | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| O'Loughlin | 8 | ? | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ellis | 8 | ? | 36 | 2 | - | - | |
| Tarrant | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Smith | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chesswas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |