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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 6th, 13th October 1945 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 3; Carlton 0 |
| Umpires | WJ Horrocks, EG Mantell |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 264/7 innings closed |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KD Meuleman | not out | 130 | |||||
| WG McGuire | run out | 35 | |||||
| RA Hamence | c and b Jinks | 27 | |||||
| NC Blundell | c Besford b Jinks | 5 | |||||
| JL Stephens | run out | 16 | |||||
| JID Leembruggen | c and b Jinks | 0 | |||||
| CC Rudd | b Freer | 25 | |||||
| WY Wilson | c Jinks b James G Baird | 16 | |||||
| TL King | did not bat | ||||||
| CWT MacGill | did not bat | ||||||
| *+OI Lovelock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 3 nb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 57.4 overs) | 264 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-58, 2-111, 3-121, 4-143, 5-144, 6-229, 7-264 (57.4 ov) | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Freer | 15 | 0 | 79 | 1 | |||
| James G Baird | 12.4 | 2 | 43 | 1 | |||
| John G Baird | 12 | 0 | 81 | 0 | |||
| Jinks | 17 | 0 | 47 | 3 | |||
| Lalor | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Carlton first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JJ Moore | st Lovelock b Blundell | 24 | |||||
| FAW Freer | b Blundell | 11 | |||||
| WG Kinnear | c Meuleman b Blundell | 30 | |||||
| CE Kerville | c MacGill b Blundell | 0 | |||||
| HW Turner | lbw b Blundell | 7 | |||||
| FA Lalor | c Lovelock b Blundell | 47 | |||||
| +E Besford | b King | 22 | |||||
| E Davidson | lbw b Blundell | 2 | |||||
| A Jinks | not out | 16 | |||||
| James G Baird | b Blundell | 2 | |||||
| *John G Baird | b Blundell | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 46.7 overs) | 168 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34, 2-35, 3-35, 4-47, 5-105, 6-107, 7-140, 8-159, 9-168, 10-168 (46.7 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | ||
| MacGill | 11 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | ||
| Blundell | 18.7 | 2 | 58 | 9 | - | ||
| Stephens | 7 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | ||
| King | 5 | 1 | 16 | 1 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RA Hamence | not out | 41 | |||||
| JID Leembruggen | b James G Baird | 2 | |||||
| TL King | c Besford b John G Baird | 1 | |||||
| CWT MacGill | not out | 6 | |||||
| KD Meuleman | did not bat | ||||||
| WG McGuire | did not bat | ||||||
| NC Blundell | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Stephens | did not bat | ||||||
| CC Rudd | did not bat | ||||||
| WY Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| *+OI Lovelock | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 nb, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 18 overs) | 52 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21, 2-31 | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| James G Baird | 5 | 1 | 16 | 1 | |||
| Freer | 6 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
| John G Baird | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Jinks | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Lalor | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||