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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 6th, 13th January 1962 (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; St Kilda 0 |
| Umpires | LF Crawford, J Jones |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 233/9 innings closed |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DH Foster | c Young b Edwards | 3 | |||||
| J Ruljancich | lbw b Hosking | 1 | |||||
| *I Monks | b Hosking | 97 | |||||
| JW Grant | b Hill | 48 | |||||
| GJ Brown | b Hill | 9 | |||||
| BG Davis | lbw b Hill | 0 | |||||
| KW Kirby | c McLean b Lynch | 13 | |||||
| +BR Lugar | b Hosking | 24 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | c Lynch b Edwards | 1 | |||||
| GL Sansom | not out | 16 | |||||
| MR Smith | not out | 12 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 1 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-7, 3-79, 4-103, 5-103, 6-136, 7-192, 8-201, 9-206 | |||||||
| St Kilda bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hosking | 14 | 3 | 55 | 3 | - | - | |
| Edwards | 15 | 3 | 54 | 2 | - | - | |
| O'Halloran | 6 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hill | 13 | 5 | 36 | 3 | - | - | |
| Lynch | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| St Kilda first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +D McLean | b Grant | 11 | |||||
| V Gretton-Watson | b Thomson | 13 | |||||
| WD Young | c Ruljancich b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| EW Seccombe | c Lugar b Grant | 11 | |||||
| WM O'Halloran | b Thomson | 2 | |||||
| RM Morton | c Lugar b Grant | 0 | |||||
| JM Goodall | lbw b Kirby | 38 | |||||
| NW Lynch | b Grant | 0 | |||||
| PM Hosking | c and b Kirby | 18 | |||||
| *JN Edwards | c and b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| JC Hill | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 27.5 overs) | 97 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23, 2-24, 3-35, 4-41, 5-41, 6-41, 7-47, 8-88, 9-88, 10-97 (27.5 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | ||
| Thomson | 10 | 3 | 22 | 3 | - | ||
| Grant | 11 | 3 | 38 | 4 | - | ||
| Kirby | 3.5 | 1 | 17 | 3 | - | ||
| St Kilda second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WD Young | c Brown b Smith | 6 | |||||
| +D McLean | b Thomson | 5 | |||||
| V Gretton-Watson | c Sansom b Smith | 6 | |||||
| EW Seccombe | c Brown b Smith | 0 | |||||
| JM Goodall | c Lugar b Sansom | 12 | |||||
| WM O'Halloran | lbw b Kirby | 30 | |||||
| RM Morton | not out | 20 | |||||
| NW Lynch | c Lugar b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| PM Hosking | not out | 26 | |||||
| *JN Edwards | did not bat | ||||||
| JC Hill | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 25 overs) | 108 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-14, 3-14, 4-19, 5-60, 6-62, 7-64 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 5 | 0 | 32 | 3 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 4 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kirby | 8 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | |
| Sansom | 5 | 0 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Grant | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |