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| Venue | Victoria Park, Melbourne on 10th, 17th January 1953 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Footscray won on first innings) |
| Points | Collingwood 0; Footscray 6 |
| Umpires | NW Speary, JH Ward |
| Close of play day 1 | Collingwood (1) 8/3 (Healey 3*, Crow 0*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *NC Blundell | b Crow | 5 | |||||
| EG Perussich | c Healey b Harper | 20 | |||||
| BC Neate | lbw b Badrock | 11 | |||||
| +BH Wright | c Lambert b Smith | 61 | |||||
| DJ Deeble | c Healey b Crow | 30 | |||||
| WG Kinnear | c Healey b Smith | 6 | |||||
| JF Thoms | c Healey b Smith | 20 | |||||
| KW McMeeken | c Phillips b Smith | 11 | |||||
| AE Dean | not out | 13 | |||||
| AC Day | b Smith | 3 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | c Dymond b Smith | 11 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 nb, 3 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 196 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24, 2-26, 3-76, 4-111, 5-118, 6-136, 7-169, 8-170, 9-176, 10-196 (49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Collingwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Crow | 11 | 1 | 51 | 2 | |||
| Harper | 10 | 4 | 18 | 1 | |||
| Lambert | 11 | 1 | 40 | 0 | |||
| Badrock | 5 | 0 | 27 | 1 | |||
| Smith | 12.2 | 0 | 55 | 6 | |||
| Collingwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HF Lambert | lbw b Day | 2 | |||||
| W Fairfull | b Thomson | 1 | |||||
| DJ Healey | c Day b Dean | 66 | |||||
| +EA Baker | c Thoms b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| TL Crow | b Thomson | 16 | |||||
| *KW Stackpole | c Wright b Dean | 14 | |||||
| KJ Smith | c Wright b Dean | 31 | |||||
| B Phillips | lbw b Dean | 4 | |||||
| PJ Dymond | b Thomson | 9 | |||||
| LA Badrock | not out | 17 | |||||
| BJ Harper | c Thoms b Dean | 13 | |||||
| Extras | (4 nb, 1 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48 overs) | 178 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-6, 3-6, 4-41, 5-75, 6-131, 7-135, 8-138, 9-157, 10-178 (48 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 17 | 4 | 60 | 4 | |||
| Day | 9 | 1 | 28 | 1 | |||
| Dean | 15 | 2 | 49 | 5 | |||
| Blundell | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | |||
| Perussich | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WG Kinnear | c Lambert b Phillips | 16 | |||||
| BC Neate | not out | 24 | |||||
| KW McMeeken | not out | 13 | |||||
| *NC Blundell | did not bat | ||||||
| EG Perussich | did not bat | ||||||
| +BH Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Deeble | did not bat | ||||||
| JF Thoms | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Dean | did not bat | ||||||
| AC Day | did not bat | ||||||
| EAN Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 14 overs) | 55 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Kinnear) | |||||||
| Collingwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Crow | 4 | 1 | 26 | 0 | - | ||
| Harper | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | ||
| Phillips | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| Badrock | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | ||