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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 16th, 23rd October 1965 (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; Collingwood 0 |
| Umpires | WK Collicoat, KM Millard |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 282/7 (Swanson 140*, Kirby 6*) |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *I Monks | b Gosstray | 4 | |||||
| GT Tobin | c Stackpole b Gosstray | 13 | |||||
| DH Foster | b Gosstray | 5 | |||||
| GJ Brown | run out | 37 | |||||
| JD Swanson | not out | 140 | |||||
| JW Grant | c McKenzie b Fildes | 15 | |||||
| BG Davis | c McKenzie b Rose | 40 | |||||
| +TS O'Neill | c Pollock b Stackpole | 6 | |||||
| KW Kirby | not out | 6 | |||||
| KE Adams | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Close | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 4 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 68 overs) | 282 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-14, 3-35, 4-119, 5-153, 6-238, 7-258 | |||||||
| Collingwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gosstray | 17 | 1 | 61 | 3 | |||
| Fildes | 11 | 1 | 46 | 1 | |||
| Berechree | 10 | 1 | 42 | 0 | |||
| Stackpole | 12 | 2 | 59 | 1 | |||
| Bird | 14 | 4 | 40 | 0 | |||
| Rose | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | |||
| Pollock | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Collingwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KP Fisher | c O'Neill b Adams | 5 | |||||
| PJ Dymond | st O'Neill b Kirby | 15 | |||||
| *KR Stackpole | b Grant | 42 | |||||
| RP Bird | c Tobin b Grant | 16 | |||||
| JE Rose | c Close b Kirby | 42 | |||||
| NF Turl | lbw b Grant | 0 | |||||
| B Pollock | c Swanson b Kirby | 22 | |||||
| C Fildes | c Swanson b Kirby | 2 | |||||
| +I McKenzie | c Swanson b Kirby | 13 | |||||
| JR Berechree | lbw b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| S Gosstray | not out | 18 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 45.5 overs) | 187 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21, 2-58, 3-76, 4-85, 5-88, 6-147, 7-155, 8-158, 9-158, 10-187 (45.5 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Grant | 11 | 0 | 34 | 3 | - | ||
| Adams | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | ||
| Close | 10 | 1 | 35 | 0 | - | ||
| Kirby | 16.5 | 1 | 76 | 6 | - | ||
| Swanson | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *I Monks | not out | 42 | |||||
| GT Tobin | not out | 19 | |||||
| DH Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| GJ Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Swanson | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Grant | did not bat | ||||||
| BG Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| +TS O'Neill | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Kirby | did not bat | ||||||
| KE Adams | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Close | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 17 overs) | 72 | |||||
| Collingwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gosstray | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | ||
| Fildes | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | ||
| Pollock | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | ||
| Berechree | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | ||
| Bird | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | ||
| Fisher | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||