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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 19th, 26th November 1955 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Carlton won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Carlton won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 0; Carlton 6 |
| Umpires | EJ Hamid, JH Ward |
| Close of play day 1 | Carlton (1) 246 all out |
| Carlton first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Wake | st Nunn b Crouch | 26 | |||||
| *HL Numa | b Foster | 34 | |||||
| M Laming | b Crouch | 50 | |||||
| HW Turner | c Clay b Crouch | 4 | |||||
| RD Short | c McPherson b Crouch | 46 | |||||
| BK Jones | c Clay b McPherson | 21 | |||||
| FA Lalor | c and b McPherson | 13 | |||||
| +JW Thompson | b McPherson | 23 | |||||
| KL Farmer | run out | 25 | |||||
| BA Smith | run out | 1 | |||||
| PW Hemingway | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 nb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 59.4 overs) | 246 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-51, 2-75, 3-79, 4-150, 5-183, 6-183, 7-201, 8-240, 9-245, 10-246 (59.4 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Clay | 16 | 2 | 55 | 0 | - | ||
| McPherson | 17.4 | 1 | 73 | 3 | - | ||
| Foster | 6 | 0 | 22 | 1 | - | ||
| Crouch | 14 | 2 | 76 | 4 | - | ||
| Ross | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HL Nield | c Thompson b Farmer | 0 | |||||
| DH Foster | c Thompson b Smith | 6 | |||||
| PA Shattock | b Smith | 16 | |||||
| FG Leslie | lbw b Hemingway | 0 | |||||
| NL Allanson | not out | 45 | |||||
| I Monks | c Thompson b Smith | 7 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | b Lalor | 17 | |||||
| GM McPherson | c Wake b Lalor | 2 | |||||
| JA Ross | b Lalor | 1 | |||||
| JL Crouch | b Smith | 1 | |||||
| IT Clay | c Thompson b Smith | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 nb, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36 overs) | 97 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-21, 3-22, 4-22, 5-35, 6-76, 7-80, 8-92, 9-93, 10-97 (36 ov) | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Farmer | 8 | 2 | 20 | 1 | |||
| Smith | 16 | 6 | 40 | 5 | |||
| Hemingway | 5 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |||
| Short | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Lalor | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | |||
| Essendon second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DH Foster | c Wake b Hemingway | 7 | |||||
| I Monks | c Laming b Hemingway | 11 | |||||
| PA Shattock | retired hurt | 9 | |||||
| FG Leslie | not out | 18 | |||||
| HL Nield | c Thompson b Hemingway | 2 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | not out | 12 | |||||
| NL Allanson | did not bat | ||||||
| GM McPherson | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Ross | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Crouch | did not bat | ||||||
| IT Clay | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 24 overs) | 60 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14, 2-27, 3-39 | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hemingway | 8 | 1 | 30 | 3 | - | - | |
| Farmer | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Smith | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lalor | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Numa | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |