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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 21st, 22nd April 1899 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Umpires | E Barrass, JT Harry |
| Close of play day 1 | Fitzroy (1) 102/9 (Twentyman 2*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Mailer | run out | 2 | |||||
| GL Wilson | b Mitchell | 80 | |||||
| HJ Fry | c Hopkins b Mitchell | 8 | |||||
| AA Aitken | c Webb b FA Tarrant | 13 | |||||
| CE Over | b Ellis | 0 | |||||
| ER Jacobs | c O'Leary b Mitchell | 32 | |||||
| *+CH Ross | c FA Tarrant b Beacham | 8 | |||||
| AJC Russell | c Beacham b Ellis | 16 | |||||
| AA Lucas | c sub (WH Banks) b FA Tarrant | 2 | |||||
| GB Moysey | not out | 20 | |||||
| JW Cave | lbw b Beacham | 7 | |||||
| Extras | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 57.5 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-47, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-197 (57.5 ov) | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ellis | 17 | ? | 37 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 16 | ? | 62 | 3 | - | - | |
| FA Tarrant | 8 | ? | 27 | 2 | - | - | |
| Beacham | 13.5 | ? | 40 | 2 | - | - | |
| O'Leary | 3 | ? | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| M Ellis | c and b Wilson | 6 | |||||
| WA Tarrant | c Aitken b Wilson | 18 | |||||
| G Beacham | c Lucas b Wilson | 18 | |||||
| *R Mitchell | c Jacobs b Wilson | 8 | |||||
| +I Hopkins | b Wilson | 4 | |||||
| FA Tarrant | c Moysey b Wilson | 1 | |||||
| W Webb | c Aitken b Fry | 27 | |||||
| CC Best | c Moysey b Fry | 8 | |||||
| A O'Leary | st Ross b Over | 6 | |||||
| E Twentyman | c Lucas b Wilson | 6 | |||||
| JJ Smith | not out | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.5 overs) | 110 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-54, 4-54, 5-56, 6-61, 7-?, 8-?, 9-102, 10-110 (32.5 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 16.5 | 4 | 44 | 7 | - | - | |
| Cave | 5 | 2 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lucas | 6 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fry | 4 | 1 | 15 | 2 | - | - | |
| Over | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GL Wilson | not out | 74 | |||||
| *+CH Ross | c FA Tarrant b Beacham | 8 | |||||
| D Mailer | b Twentyman | 33 | |||||
| ER Jacobs | run out | 38 | |||||
| AA Aitken | not out | 3 | |||||
| HJ Fry | did not bat | ||||||
| CE Over | did not bat | ||||||
| AJC Russell | did not bat | ||||||
| AA Lucas | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Moysey | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Cave | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 3 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 57 overs) | 159 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-? | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Beacham | 15 | 6 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| FA Tarrant | 13 | 2 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | 11 | 1 | 35 | 0 | - | - | |
| O'Leary | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Best | 9 | 4 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Twentyman | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |