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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 1st, 8th December 1951 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Footscray 0; Melbourne 3 |
| Umpires | JL Lancaster, EG Mantell |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne (1) 168/5 (Haysom 73*, Symons 4*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +BH Wright | c Collins b Fairbairn | 9 | |||||
| *WG Kinnear | lbw b Iverson | 19 | |||||
| KW Murphy | b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| JF Thoms | lbw b Daniel | 1 | |||||
| EG Perussich | c Collins b Fairbairn | 1 | |||||
| G Guy | lbw b Fairbairn | 2 | |||||
| W Newhouse | b Iverson | 10 | |||||
| AE Dean | c Symons b Iverson | 2 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | b Fairbairn | 1 | |||||
| J Grantham | not out | 0 | |||||
| AC Day | b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 17.4 overs) | 51 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-13, 3-16, 4-21, 5-23, 6-46, 7-50, 8-51, 9-51, 10-51 (17.4 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fairbairn | 8.4 | 1 | 19 | 6 | - | ||
| Daniel | 7 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | ||
| Iverson | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | ||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Solomon | lbw b Dean | 3 | |||||
| RO Speechley | c Thomson b Day | 41 | |||||
| RP Hill | lbw b Dean | 4 | |||||
| MR Haysom | not out | 73 | |||||
| J Daniel | c Murphy b Day | 37 | |||||
| RB Stevens | lbw b Dean | 5 | |||||
| JHM Symons | not out | 4 | |||||
| *JG Green | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Fairbairn | did not bat | ||||||
| +GA Collins | did not bat | ||||||
| JB Iverson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 44 overs) | 168 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-12, 3-78, 4-151, 5-164 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Day | 13 | 1 | 44 | 2 | - | - | |
| Dean | 10 | 1 | 27 | 3 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 8 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | |
| Grantham | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Perussich | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Thoms | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +BH Wright | not out | 33 | |||||
| *WG Kinnear | b Fairbairn | 5 | |||||
| W Newhouse | c Collins b Fairbairn | 0 | |||||
| JF Thoms | b Iverson | 4 | |||||
| EG Perussich | not out | 12 | |||||
| KW Murphy | did not bat | ||||||
| G Guy | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Dean | did not bat | ||||||
| EAN Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| J Grantham | did not bat | ||||||
| AC Day | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 13.5 overs) | 56 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-27, 3-32 | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fairbairn | 6 | 1 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |
| Daniel | 3.5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Iverson | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |