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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 9th, 16th January 1965 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Fitzroy won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 0; Fitzroy 6 |
| Umpires | VR Smithwick, WJ Smyth |
| Close of play day 1 | Fitzroy (1) 59/0 (Bitmead 37*, Heller 21*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *I Monks | c Kline b Milner | 52 | |||||
| DH Foster | lbw b Paterson | 0 | |||||
| GT Tobin | c Heller b Davison | 32 | |||||
| GJ Brown | b Illingworth | 15 | |||||
| JW Grant | b Milner | 0 | |||||
| JD Swanson | b Illingworth | 4 | |||||
| BG Davis | c Illingworth b Anderson | 42 | |||||
| +TS O'Neill | c Potter b Milner | 31 | |||||
| KW Kirby | c Kline b Anderson | 29 | |||||
| IJ Taylor | b Bitmead | 2 | |||||
| KE Adams | not out | 9 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 57.6 overs) | 227 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-74, 3-95, 4-95, 5-100, 6-125, 7-180, 8-190, 9-199, 10-227 (57.6 ov) | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Illingworth | 16 | 3 | 66 | 2 | |||
| Paterson | 4 | 2 | 25 | 1 | |||
| Heller | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Davison | 8 | 2 | 17 | 1 | |||
| Milner | 18 | 4 | 45 | 3 | |||
| Bitmead | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | |||
| Potter | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
| Anderson | 3.6 | 0 | 22 | 2 | |||
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RC Bitmead | st O'Neill b Kirby | 63 | |||||
| WA Heller | c O'Neill b Adams | 22 | |||||
| *J Potter | c O'Neill b Grant | 1 | |||||
| GL Harvey | c Swanson b Kirby | 12 | |||||
| DJ Anderson | c Taylor b Swanson | 89 | |||||
| PA Huntington | st O'Neill b Kirby | 5 | |||||
| LJ Davison | c Brown b Swanson | 14 | |||||
| EP Illingworth | c Davis b Swanson | 14 | |||||
| R Milner | c Brown b Kirby | 6 | |||||
| +BA Kline | b Grant | 3 | |||||
| J Paterson | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 55.6 overs) | 246 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-62, 2-69, 3-99, 4-110, 5-125, 6-146, 7-160, 8-169, 9-190, 10-246 (55.6 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Grant | 18 | 3 | 74 | 2 | |||
| Taylor | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| Kirby | 14.1 | 0 | 69 | 4 | |||
| Adams | 8 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |||
| Swanson | 11.5 | 2 | 33 | 3 | |||
| Davis | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GJ Brown | retired hurt | 23 | |||||
| JD Swanson | not out | 46 | |||||
| GT Tobin | not out | 1 | |||||
| *I Monks | did not bat | ||||||
| DH Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Grant | did not bat | ||||||
| BG Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| +TS O'Neill | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Kirby | did not bat | ||||||
| IJ Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| KE Adams | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 13 overs) | 74 | |||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Illingworth | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | ||
| Paterson | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | ||
| Milner | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | ||
| Heller | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | ||
| Anderson | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | ||
| Harvey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||