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| Venue | Richmond Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 15th December 1917, 5th January 1918 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn (Richmond won on first innings) |
| Points | Richmond 2; Essendon -2 |
| Umpires | HJ Alessio, JW McLean |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 44/7 (Mullett 3*) |
| Richmond first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HJ Richardson | lbw b Carroll | 22 | |||||
| L Stewart | c and b Carroll | 4 | |||||
| HJ King | c [unknown] b Mullett | 18 | |||||
| *WLU Kelly | b Carroll | 10 | |||||
| JE Cronk | b Carroll | 1 | |||||
| WL Rush | b Carroll | 18 | |||||
| W Wells | run out | 2 | |||||
| +A Ogilvie | b Mullett | 14 | |||||
| TJ Bayliss | b Mullett | 13 | |||||
| L Smith | lbw b Mullett | 0 | |||||
| CGH Sindrey | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 110 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-110 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Carroll | ? | ? | 59 | 5 | - | - | |
| Hart | ? | ? | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jacobson | ? | ? | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mullett | ? | ? | 6 | 4 | - | - | |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Davies | c Kelly b Rush | 2 | |||||
| G Collie | b Smith | 7 | |||||
| AV Steel | b Smith | 3 | |||||
| +PA Shea | b Smith | 21 | |||||
| EL Carroll | b Smith | 5 | |||||
| HW Hart | c Richardson b Sindrey | 2 | |||||
| DV Jacobson | b Smith | 1 | |||||
| LT Mullett | b Smith | 4 | |||||
| PW Steel | not out | 8 | |||||
| *WJ Griffiths | b Smith | 6 | |||||
| CWJ Musgrove | c Stewart b Sindrey | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 61 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-61 | |||||||
| Richmond bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 10 | 5 | 14 | 7 | - | - | |
| Rush | ? | ? | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sindrey | ? | ? | 5 | 2 | - | - | |
| Richmond second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CGH Sindrey | lbw b Hart | 7 | |||||
| L Smith | lbw b Hart | 0 | |||||
| HJ King | b Jacobson | 21 | |||||
| TJ Bayliss | c Shea b Carroll | 24 | |||||
| W Wells | c Musgrove b Hart | 3 | |||||
| JE Cronk | b Mullett | 5 | |||||
| +A Ogilvie | b Hart | 17 | |||||
| WL Rush | c [unknown] b Davies | 34 | |||||
| HJ Richardson | b Hart | 22 | |||||
| L Stewart | run out | 5 | |||||
| *WLU Kelly | not out | 20 | |||||
| Extras | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 171 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-171 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hart | ? | ? | 46 | 5 | - | - | |
| Jacobson | ? | ? | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Carroll | ? | ? | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mullett | ? | ? | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Davies | ? | ? | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Collie | ? | ? | 1 | 0 | - | - | |