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| Venue | North Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 18th, 25th October 1952 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | North Melbourne won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (South Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | North Melbourne 0; South Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | WJ Smyth, RJJ Wright |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 254/5 innings closed |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KW Aldenhoven | c LV Maddocks b Thomlinson | 20 | |||||
| R Howard | st LV Maddocks b White | 35 | |||||
| RH Menkens | b De Lacy | 6 | |||||
| J Hallebone | c French b RI Maddocks | 81 | |||||
| *AL Hassett | c LV Maddocks b De Lacy | 99 | |||||
| KHD Kendall | not out | 11 | |||||
| IWG Johnson | not out | 1 | |||||
| +WM Mitchell | did not bat | ||||||
| TL Morris | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Reeve | did not bat | ||||||
| IW Quick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 63 overs) | 254 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-55, 2-55, 3-63, 4-227, 5-251 | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| De Lacy | 19 | 4 | 58 | 2 | - | - | |
| White | 12 | 2 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dempster | 9 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Thomlinson | 10 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | |
| French | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | |
| RI Maddocks | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *RA Dempster | c and b Johnson | 2 | |||||
| JC Watters | b Reeve | 15 | |||||
| RI Maddocks | c Mitchell b Reeve | 12 | |||||
| +LV Maddocks | c Mitchell b Quick | 52 | |||||
| RA Watters | c sub (RA Dempster) b Quick | 44 | |||||
| JC Izon | c Morris b Johnson | 12 | |||||
| JC Molyneux | b Johnson | 2 | |||||
| S French | not out | 24 | |||||
| JMB White | st Mitchell b Johnson | 13 | |||||
| DL De Lacy | lbw b Quick | 0 | |||||
| JR Thomlinson | b Quick | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 58.4 overs) | 188 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16, 2-28, 3-40, 4-131, 5-138, 6-146, 7-149, 8-179, 9-186, 10-188 (58.4 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Reeve | 16 | 3 | 42 | 2 | |||
| Howard | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Johnson | 20 | 6 | 35 | 4 | |||
| Morris | 6 | 0 | 52 | 0 | |||
| Quick | 15.4 | 4 | 47 | 4 | |||
| South Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Howard | not out | 0 | |||||
| KW Aldenhoven | not out | 0 | |||||
| RH Menkens | did not bat | ||||||
| J Hallebone | did not bat | ||||||
| *AL Hassett | did not bat | ||||||
| KHD Kendall | did not bat | ||||||
| IWG Johnson | did not bat | ||||||
| +WM Mitchell | did not bat | ||||||
| TL Morris | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Reeve | did not bat | ||||||
| IW Quick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 0.1 overs) | 0 | |||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Izon | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||