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| Venue | North Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 8th, 15th January 1916 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | North Melbourne -2; Essendon 2 |
| Umpires | DA Elder, T Rooke |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 374/7 (AV Steel 37*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *ER Mayne | c sub b Twigg | 192 | |||||
| WJ Griffiths | c Johnson b Carlton | 2 | |||||
| +FH Allan | lbw b McGregor | 0 | |||||
| PA Shea | c Johnson b O'Brien | 89 | |||||
| AV Steel | not out | 37 | |||||
| DV Jacobson | b McGregor | 6 | |||||
| FJ Hanna | b O'Brien | 5 | |||||
| HM Chellew | b O'Brien | 20 | |||||
| EL Carroll | did not bat | ||||||
| SC Steel | did not bat | ||||||
| A Pitman | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 23 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared) | 374 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-300, 5-?, 6-?, 7-374 | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Carlton | ? | ? | 113 | 1 | - | - | |
| McGregor | ? | ? | 84 | 2 | - | - | |
| Johnson | ? | ? | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Twigg | ? | ? | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shields | ? | ? | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bracher | ? | ? | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Upstill | ? | ? | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| O'Brien | ? | ? | 40 | 3 | - | - | |
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *W Carlton | c and b Jacobson | 33 | |||||
| R McGregor | b Carroll | 9 | |||||
| HHG Bracher | st Allan b Carroll | 14 | |||||
| JH Stuckey | c Mayne b Carroll | 1 | |||||
| +S O'Brien | c Pitman b Jacobson | 11 | |||||
| H Upstill | c Jacobson b Carroll | 13 | |||||
| W Twigg | b Jacobson | 7 | |||||
| C Shields | b Jacobson | 9 | |||||
| WJ Johnson | b Jacobson | 16 | |||||
| HW Hart | not out | 18 | |||||
| EE Bean | c Carroll b Pitman | 8 | |||||
| Extras | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-144 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Shea | ? | ? | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Carroll | ? | ? | 47 | 4 | - | - | |
| Jacobson | ? | ? | 41 | 5 | - | - | |
| Pitman | ? | ? | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| North Melbourne second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HHG Bracher | b Carroll | 5 | |||||
| HW Hart | c Griffiths b Shea | 42 | |||||
| C Shields | b Chellew | 8 | |||||
| W Twigg | b Chellew | 0 | |||||
| H Upstill | c Mayne b Chellew | 15 | |||||
| WJ Johnson | not out | 17 | |||||
| +S O'Brien | b Chellew | 5 | |||||
| JH Stuckey | not out | 7 | |||||
| *W Carlton | did not bat | ||||||
| R McGregor | did not bat | ||||||
| EE Bean | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 6 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets) | 105 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-? | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Carroll | ? | ? | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chellew | ? | ? | 53 | 4 | - | - | |
| Shea | ? | ? | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jacobson | ? | ? | 11 | 0 | - | - | |