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| Venue | Princes Park, Melbourne on 22nd, 29th November, 6th December 1902 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Carlton won on first innings) |
| Umpires | WJ Bruton, WA Hopkinson |
| Close of play day 1 | Carlton (1) 123/2 (Graham 63*, Fox 4*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Carlton (1) 301/9 (Ahern 1*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Mailer | b Warne | 5 | |||||
| CE McLeod | b Warne | 9 | |||||
| *W Bruce | run out | 64 | |||||
| AA Aitken | c Ahern b Coburn | 13 | |||||
| D Reese | c Bowden b Warne | 41 | |||||
| CH Peryman | c and b Coburn | 9 | |||||
| HJ Fry | b Warne | 0 | |||||
| CE Over | not out | 13 | |||||
| +JE Monfries | b Worrall | 23 | |||||
| FA Tarrant | b Fox | 1 | |||||
| JW Cave | b Fox | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 75.2 overs) | 184 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11, 2-29, 3-51, 4-124, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-184 (75.2 ov) | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Warne | 29 | 4 | 76 | 4 | - | - | |
| Coburn | 26 | 7 | 51 | 2 | - | - | |
| Worrall | 9 | 2 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fox | 11.2 | 2 | 21 | 2 | - | - | |
| Carlton first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *J Worrall | lbw b Tarrant | 11 | |||||
| TS Warne | c and b Tarrant | 45 | |||||
| H Graham | c Aitken b Tarrant | 94 | |||||
| AHN Fox | c Aitken b McLeod | 54 | |||||
| JS Redgrave | b Over | 71 | |||||
| FAP Bowden | st Monfries b Over | 15 | |||||
| LA Hoy | c Mailer b Tarrant | 1 | |||||
| JA Coburn | b Tarrant | 6 | |||||
| +TJ Hastings | c and b Over | 1 | |||||
| WT Ahern | c Bruce b Over | 2 | |||||
| HE Rigg | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | 3 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 113.4 overs) | 304 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-301, 10-304 (113.4 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McLeod | 34 | 9 | 111 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tarrant | 45 | 12 | 92 | 5 | - | - | |
| Cave | 10 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Fry | 13 | 4 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Over | 11.4 | 2 | 34 | 4 | - | - | |
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Reese | c and b Coburn | 1 | |||||
| D Mailer | c Bowden b Coburn | 2 | |||||
| *W Bruce | not out | 86 | |||||
| AA Aitken | st Hastings b Warne | 0 | |||||
| CH Peryman | run out | 8 | |||||
| HJ Fry | not out | 56 | |||||
| CE McLeod | did not bat | ||||||
| CE Over | did not bat | ||||||
| +JE Monfries | did not bat | ||||||
| FA Tarrant | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Cave | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 39 overs) | 161 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-44 | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Warne | 13 | 4 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| Coburn | 11 | 3 | 36 | 2 | - | - | |
| Fox | 7 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hoy | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rigg | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bowden | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Carlton second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HE Rigg | c Mailer b Reese | 39 | |||||
| FAP Bowden | c Cave b Fry | 31 | |||||
| +TJ Hastings | c Peryman b Tarrant | 34 | |||||
| LA Hoy | b Fry | 3 | |||||
| WT Ahern | not out | 0 | |||||
| *J Worrall | did not bat | ||||||
| TS Warne | did not bat | ||||||
| H Graham | did not bat | ||||||
| AHN Fox | did not bat | ||||||
| JS Redgrave | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Coburn | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 28.2 overs) | 113 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-113 (28.2 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reese | 8 | 0 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Over | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cave | 5 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tarrant | 6 | 2 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fry | 5.2 | 2 | 17 | 2 | - | - | |