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| Venue | South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 15th, 22nd December 1951 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Fitzroy won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (South Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | South Melbourne 3; Fitzroy 0 |
| Umpires | EJ Hamid, E Heintz |
| Close of play day 1 |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BF Vawser | c Arnall b Cant | 15 | |||||
| *KW Aldenhoven | lbw b Cant | 11 | |||||
| KHD Kendall | lbw b Cant | 6 | |||||
| JH Shaw | b Pearse | 44 | |||||
| NA Byrne | b Cant | 0 | |||||
| +G McKay | run out | 40 | |||||
| MH Reeve | c Straw b Cant | 30 | |||||
| NR Aldenhoven | b Cant | 0 | |||||
| G Mackay | run out | 23 | |||||
| AD McDonald | not out | 10 | |||||
| IW Quick | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 41.5 overs) | 180 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20, 2-29, 3-34, 4-34, 5-102, 6-133, 7-134, 8-167, 9-180 | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Considine | 8 | 3 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cant | 14.5 | 2 | 58 | 6 | - | - | |
| Shillinglaw | 7 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Peters | 6 | 1 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| Arnall | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pearse | 3 | 1 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *MR Harvey | c KW Aldenhoven b Reeve | 57 | |||||
| DHL Arnall | lbw b McDonald | 19 | |||||
| LV Straw | run out | 26 | |||||
| K Cant | c Reeve b Quick | 8 | |||||
| HAE Shillinglaw | c Reeve b Quick | 9 | |||||
| BC Harvey | b Quick | 0 | |||||
| J Pearse | run out | 6 | |||||
| JR Beitzel | run out | 3 | |||||
| K Peters | b Reeve | 15 | |||||
| +WL Jacobs | b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| BT Considine | not out | 10 | |||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 34.3 overs) | 155 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37, 2-97, 3-108, 4-110, 5-110, 6-123, 7-128, 8-132, 9-132, 10-155 (34.3 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mackay | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reeve | 15.3 | 2 | 56 | 3 | - | - | |
| McDonald | 5 | 0 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| NR Aldenhoven | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Quick | 10 | 0 | 33 | 3 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NR Aldenhoven | not out | 2 | |||||
| NA Byrne | not out | 6 | |||||
| BF Vawser | did not bat | ||||||
| *KW Aldenhoven | did not bat | ||||||
| KHD Kendall | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Shaw | did not bat | ||||||
| +G McKay | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Reeve | did not bat | ||||||
| G Mackay | did not bat | ||||||
| AD McDonald | did not bat | ||||||
| IW Quick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 2 overs) | 9 | |||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Pearse | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| MR Harvey | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |