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| Venue | South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 15th, 22nd January 1955 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | South Melbourne 0; Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | WJ Smyth, G Wetenhall |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 9/0 (Vawser 1*, Johnson 8*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Solomon | lbw b Johnson | 52 | |||||
| EAM Ajani | c Vawser b Reeve | 7 | |||||
| JHM Symons | lbw b Hill | 31 | |||||
| RB Stevens | b Hill | 0 | |||||
| MR Haysom | lbw b Hill | 23 | |||||
| J Daniel | c Howard b Johnson | 75 | |||||
| CN Crompton | c Quick b Meckiff | 25 | |||||
| *CL Fairbairn | c Mitchell b Reeve | 11 | |||||
| LF Kline | lbw b Reeve | 0 | |||||
| CR Smith | lbw b Johnson | 1 | |||||
| +GW Longney | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 239 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-239 | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hill | ? | ? | 34 | 3 | - | - | |
| Meckiff | ? | ? | 66 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reeve | ? | ? | 33 | 3 | - | - | |
| Johnson | ? | ? | 73 | 3 | - | - | |
| Quick | ? | ? | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BF Vawser | b Fairbairn | 15 | |||||
| *IWG Johnson | run out | 10 | |||||
| KHD Kendall | c Daniel b Kline | 51 | |||||
| JH Butler | c Daniel b Kline | 2 | |||||
| EJ Barnes | lbw b Fairbairn | 11 | |||||
| R Howard | st Longney b Kline | 35 | |||||
| +WM Mitchell | c Stevens b Kline | 18 | |||||
| IW Quick | b Kline | 0 | |||||
| I Meckiff | lbw b Kline | 4 | |||||
| LB Hill | b Smith | 1 | |||||
| MH Reeve | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 1 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 148 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-148 (49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 16 | 1 | 50 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fairbairn | 12 | 2 | 38 | 2 | - | - | |
| Daniel | 8 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kline | 13.2 | 2 | 32 | 6 | - | - | |
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EAM Ajani | lbw b Meckiff | 4 | |||||
| JHM Symons | c Mitchell b Meckiff | 19 | |||||
| JC Solomon | not out | 14 | |||||
| RB Stevens | not out | 21 | |||||
| MR Haysom | did not bat | ||||||
| J Daniel | did not bat | ||||||
| CN Crompton | did not bat | ||||||
| *CL Fairbairn | did not bat | ||||||
| LF Kline | did not bat | ||||||
| CR Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| +GW Longney | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 3 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets) | 61 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-? | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Meckiff | ? | ? | 17 | 2 | - | - | |
| Johnson | ? | ? | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Quick | ? | ? | 16 | 0 | - | - | |