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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 2nd, 9th November 1957 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 6; North Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | LB Graham, EG Mantell |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 232 all out |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DH Foster | c Evans b Jinkins | 52 | |||||
| I Monks | lbw b Harry | 33 | |||||
| J Ruljancich | b Harry | 0 | |||||
| NL Allanson | run out | 18 | |||||
| FG Leslie | c Harry b Jinkins | 68 | |||||
| GWF Beissel | b Pearce | 17 | |||||
| JA Peters | c Biggs b Pearce | 26 | |||||
| GM McPherson | lbw b Jinkins | 3 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | not out | 0 | |||||
| GHE Upston | b Jinkins | 0 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | c Murphy b Pearce | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 2 lb, 5 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 66.3 overs) | 232 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-68, 2-68, 3-102, 4-118, 5-159, 6-219, 7-229, 8-231, 9-231, 10-232 (66.3 ov) | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Jinkins | 19 | 4 | 42 | 4 | - | ||
| Pearce | 16.3 | 1 | 50 | 3 | - | ||
| French | 15 | 0 | 78 | 0 | - | ||
| Harry | 16 | 3 | 48 | 2 | - | ||
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *JC Watters | c Nunn b McPherson | 28 | |||||
| NG Jacobs | run out | 24 | |||||
| FT Murphy | b Thomson | 13 | |||||
| GW Leydin | c Ruljancich b Thomson | 3 | |||||
| +RB Evans | c Nunn b Peters | 11 | |||||
| T Biggs | retired hurt | 0 | |||||
| DJ Blair | b Peters | 2 | |||||
| S French | c McPherson b Peters | 10 | |||||
| KN Pearce | c Nunn b Thomson | 20 | |||||
| GJ Jinkins | not out | 8 | |||||
| RA Harry | c Nunn b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36.3 overs) | 123 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29, 2-46, 3-50, 4-80, 5-81, 6-92, 7-101, 8-121, 9-123 (36.3 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 13.3 | 2 | 48 | 4 | - | ||
| McPherson | 8 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | ||
| Upston | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | ||
| Peters | 9 | 0 | 30 | 3 | - | ||
| North Melbourne second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NG Jacobs | lbw b Upston | 11 | |||||
| DJ Blair | not out | 3 | |||||
| FT Murphy | not out | 0 | |||||
| *JC Watters | did not bat | ||||||
| GW Leydin | did not bat | ||||||
| +RB Evans | did not bat | ||||||
| T Biggs | did not bat | ||||||
| S French | did not bat | ||||||
| KN Pearce | did not bat | ||||||
| GJ Jinkins | did not bat | ||||||
| RA Harry | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 7 overs) | 14 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Jacobs) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Peters | 3 | 1 | 13 | 0 | |||
| Upston | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Thomson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||