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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 23rd February, 2nd March 1957 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Hawthorn-East Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Hawthorn-East Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 0; Hawthorn-East Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | JA McDonald, WJ Smyth |
| Close of play day 1 | Hawthorn-East Melbourne (1) 260/9 innings closed |
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Cosgrave | c and b Upston | 113 | |||||
| LA Green | c Nunn b McPherson | 0 | |||||
| DW Green | c Upston b Thomson | 12 | |||||
| WA Dick | c Monks b McPherson | 2 | |||||
| CD Munro | c Whitford b Upston | 76 | |||||
| *EAD Kerr | b Upston | 13 | |||||
| IK Law | c and b McPherson | 8 | |||||
| GF Cormack | c sub (JL Salmon) b Upston | 0 | |||||
| +LJ Botham | not out | 15 | |||||
| JL Salmon | c Beissel b Upston | 4 | |||||
| JP Smith | not out | 9 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 52 overs) | 260 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-39, 3-44, 4-172, 5-198, 6-227, 7-227, 8-229, 9-238 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 18 | 2 | 61 | 1 | - | - | |
| McPherson | 15 | 1 | 59 | 3 | - | - | |
| Whitford | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Upston | 15 | 0 | 91 | 5 | - | - | |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| FG Leslie | c Dick b Salmon | 5 | |||||
| I Monks | c Botham b Kerr | 23 | |||||
| DH Foster | st Botham b Cormack | 26 | |||||
| NL Allanson | c Botham b Kerr | 11 | |||||
| JA Peters | c Botham b Kerr | 0 | |||||
| GWF Beissel | b Dick | 26 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Botham b Dick | 18 | |||||
| GHE Upston | run out | 5 | |||||
| GM McPherson | not out | 24 | |||||
| GS Whitford | b Kerr | 0 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | b Kerr | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 5 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43.4 overs) | 147 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-43, 3-61, 4-61, 5-74, 6-115, 7-119, 8-146, 9-147, 10-147 (43.4 ov) | |||||||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | ||
| Salmon | 11 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | ||
| Kerr | 10.4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | - | ||
| Cormack | 7 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | ||
| Dick | 8 | 3 | 14 | 2 | - | ||
| Munro | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| FG Leslie | c DW Green b Kerr | 19 | |||||
| I Monks | b Smith | 7 | |||||
| DH Foster | lbw b Kerr | 28 | |||||
| NL Allanson | not out | 5 | |||||
| JA Peters | not out | 13 | |||||
| GWF Beissel | did not bat | ||||||
| *+HA Nunn | did not bat | ||||||
| GHE Upston | did not bat | ||||||
| GM McPherson | did not bat | ||||||
| GS Whitford | did not bat | ||||||
| EAN Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 2 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 14 overs) | 83 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-40, 3-60 | |||||||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Salmon | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Smith | 4 | 1 | 18 | 1 | |||
| Kerr | 3 | 1 | 15 | 2 | |||
| Dick | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||
| DW Green | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| LA Green | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||