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| Venue | South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 23rd February, 1st March 1952 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Footscray won by 3 wickets |
| Points | South Melbourne 0; Footscray 5 |
| Umpires | RM Sales, W Scott |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 118/6 (Perussich 32*) |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *R Howard | c Guy b Thomson | 37 | |||||
| BF Vawser | c Collins b Dean | 9 | |||||
| KW Aldenhoven | c Murphy b Thomson | 6 | |||||
| JH Shaw | c Guy b Dean | 2 | |||||
| KHD Kendall | b Dean | 5 | |||||
| RH Menkens | c Guy b Dean | 3 | |||||
| +G McKay | b Thomson | 1 | |||||
| NR Aldenhoven | b Thomson | 11 | |||||
| MH Reeve | c Thomson b Dean | 2 | |||||
| IW Quick | not out | 0 | |||||
| IWG Johnson | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 nb, 2 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 26.1 overs) | 81 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26, 2-38, 3-44, 4-62, 5-62, 6-65, 7-78, 8-80, 9-81 (26.1 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 13.1 | 3 | 39 | 4 | |||
| Dean | 13 | 3 | 37 | 5 | |||
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +G Guy | st McKay b Quick | 18 | |||||
| RG Mulligan | c McKay b Quick | 12 | |||||
| AE Dean | c Reeve b Quick | 4 | |||||
| JF Thoms | c sub (KW Murphy) b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| BH Wright | lbw b NR Aldenhoven | 33 | |||||
| EG Perussich | lbw b Quick | 46 | |||||
| *WG Kinnear | c McKay b Reeve | 17 | |||||
| JK Ormston | b Johnson | 3 | |||||
| JC Collins | not out | 8 | |||||
| KW Murphy | c McKay b Quick | 32 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | c Howard b Johnson | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 55.1 overs) | 176 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26, 2-30, 3-31, 4-51, 5-82, 6-118, 7-123, 8-139, 9-175, 10-176 (55.1 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reeve | 15 | 4 | 44 | 2 | - | ||
| NR Aldenhoven | 9 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | ||
| Quick | 21 | 5 | 71 | 5 | - | ||
| Johnson | 10.1 | 2 | 23 | 2 | - | ||
| South Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *R Howard | c Guy b Thomson | 31 | |||||
| KW Aldenhoven | not out | 89 | |||||
| IWG Johnson | run out | 14 | |||||
| KHD Kendall | not out | 51 | |||||
| BF Vawser | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Shaw | did not bat | ||||||
| RH Menkens | did not bat | ||||||
| +G McKay | did not bat | ||||||
| NR Aldenhoven | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Reeve | did not bat | ||||||
| IW Quick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 4 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 20 overs) | 193 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-46, 2-76 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 5 | 0 | 34 | 1 | - | ||
| Dean | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | ||
| Perussich | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | ||
| Ormston | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | ||
| Collins | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | ||
| Thoms | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | ||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WG Kinnear | lbw b Johnson | 26 | |||||
| +G Guy | b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| BH Wright | b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| JF Thoms | c McKay b Reeve | 26 | |||||
| KW Murphy | b Johnson | 13 | |||||
| EG Perussich | run out | 7 | |||||
| AE Dean | lbw b Johnson | 14 | |||||
| JC Collins | not out | 5 | |||||
| JK Ormston | not out | 6 | |||||
| RG Mulligan | did not bat | ||||||
| EAN Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 23.6 overs) | 99 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-1, 3-39, 4-64, 5-71, 6-87, 7-87 | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reeve | 12 | 1 | 45 | 3 | - | - | |
| Johnson | 9.6 | 3 | 38 | 3 | - | - | |
| Quick | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |