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| Venue | Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 16th, 23rd, 30th April 1898 (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 | WA Hopkinson, J Lucas |
| Close of play day 1 | Fitzroy (1) 286/4 (Mitchell 55*, Webb 15*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Richmond (1) 50/2 (Wade 22*, Sholl 18*) |
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Beacham | c Kelly b Wade | 17 | |||||
| M Ellis | c Wade b Howard | 108 | |||||
| WA Tarrant | b Sholl | 78 | |||||
| CC Best | lbw b Sholl | 0 | |||||
| *R Mitchell | st Honeybone b Kelly | 59 | |||||
| W Webb | c Whitehead b Howard | 45 | |||||
| +I Hopkins | c Wade b Howard | 27 | |||||
| DG Tulloch | lbw b Kelly | 0 | |||||
| E Twentyman | c Tritton b Wade | 29 | |||||
| FA Tarrant | not out | 27 | |||||
| W Giller | b Howard | 5 | |||||
| Extras | 16 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 122.2 overs) | 411 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-42, 2-203, 3-203, 4-243, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-411 (122.2 ov) | |||||||
| Richmond bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wade | 37 | 8 | 96 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kelly | 25 | 4 | 92 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sholl | 29 | 5 | 91 | 2 | - | - | |
| Rush | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Howard | 20.2 | 3 | 74 | 4 | - | - | |
| Reade | 7 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richmond first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AE Jones | st Hopkins b Beacham | 9 | |||||
| AM Wade | c Hopkins b Beacham | 33 | |||||
| MH Rush | lbw b Twentyman | 1 | |||||
| E Sholl | st Hopkins b Beacham | 46 | |||||
| E Howard | b FA Tarrant | 5 | |||||
| AE Whitehead | c FA Tarrant b Beacham | 4 | |||||
| *RTB Kelly | b Beacham | 13 | |||||
| HF Tritton | not out | 0 | |||||
| +GA Honeybone | st Hopkins b Beacham | 0 | |||||
| W Reade | c and b Beacham | 0 | |||||
| AA Emmerson | absent | ||||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 51 overs) | 119 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-102, 6-116, 7-119, 8-119, 9-119 (51 ov) | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Beacham | 18 | 4 | 53 | 7 | - | - | |
| Twentyman | 15 | 6 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ellis | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| FA Tarrant | 8 | 2 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 8 | 3 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richmond second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| W Reade | run out | 0 | |||||
| AM Wade | b Ellis | 0 | |||||
| HF Tritton | c Giller b Ellis | 7 | |||||
| *RTB Kelly | c WA Tarrant b Ellis | 2 | |||||
| AE Whitehead | c Hopkins b Ellis | 9 | |||||
| E Sholl | not out | 27 | |||||
| E Howard | not out | 7 | |||||
| AE Jones | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Rush | did not bat | ||||||
| +GA Honeybone | did not bat | ||||||
| AA Emmerson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 26 overs) | 54 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-? | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ellis | 13 | 4 | 19 | 4 | - | - | |
| WA Tarrant | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Giller | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tulloch | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |