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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 23rd, 30th January 1954 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Melbourne 0; South Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | P Millott, JE Wheeler |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 13/1 (Vawser 5*, Mitchell 0*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Solomon | c Davy b Meckiff | 12 | |||||
| RA Milne | lbw b Reeve | 22 | |||||
| MR Haysom | c Hassett b Meckiff | 4 | |||||
| JHM Symons | c Mitchell b Reeve | 2 | |||||
| RB Stevens | lbw b Reeve | 54 | |||||
| J Daniel | c Howard b McDonald | 41 | |||||
| LF Kline | c Shaw b Reeve | 7 | |||||
| *CL Fairbairn | not out | 5 | |||||
| DT Anderson | b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| RT Figgis | c Meckiff b McDonald | 0 | |||||
| +D Peters | c Mitchell b McDonald | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 157 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-157 | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Davy | ? | ? | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reeve | ? | ? | 35 | 5 | - | - | |
| Meckiff | ? | ? | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mackay | ? | ? | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| McDonald | ? | ? | 37 | 3 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BF Vawser | not out | 5 | |||||
| R Howard | c Figgis b Anderson | 8 | |||||
| +WM Mitchell | not out | 0 | |||||
| JH Shaw | did not bat | ||||||
| *AL Hassett | did not bat | ||||||
| KHD Kendall | did not bat | ||||||
| G Mackay | did not bat | ||||||
| AD McDonald | did not bat | ||||||
| MH Reeve | did not bat | ||||||
| J Davy | did not bat | ||||||
| I Meckiff | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 4.1 overs) | 13 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-? (Howard) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 2.1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |||
| Fairbairn | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||