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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 30th October, 6th November 1965 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Footscray won on first innings) |
| Points | Footscray 6; Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | WK Collicoat, LJ McLaren |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 249/9 (Leigh 45*, Beattie 16*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| VJ Roach | c Crompton b Bedford | 92 | |||||
| BJ McConnell | c Boyd b Jones | 0 | |||||
| B Moloney | b Boyd | 0 | |||||
| LR Joslin | c Carlyon b Jones | 17 | |||||
| RCW Watson | c Crompton b Bedford | 43 | |||||
| M Venes | c Crompton b Hammond | 3 | |||||
| NW Curwood | lbw b Bedford | 5 | |||||
| +RA Hewat | c McKenzie b Hammond | 15 | |||||
| TE Seal | st Carlyon b Bedford | 0 | |||||
| *AR Leigh | not out | 45 | |||||
| BC Beattie | not out | 16 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 76 overs) | 249 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-5, 3-35, 4-153, 5-156, 6-168, 7-171, 8-171, 9-197 | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Boyd | 8 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | ||
| Jones | 13 | 2 | 41 | 2 | - | ||
| Huntington | 5 | 2 | 15 | 0 | - | ||
| McKenzie | 10 | 3 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| Bedford | 24 | 4 | 86 | 4 | - | ||
| Hammond | 16 | 5 | 40 | 2 | - | ||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +NM Carlyon | c Roach b Leigh | 0 | |||||
| JI Grange | c and b Beattie | 1 | |||||
| *IR Huntington | c Roach b McConnell | 46 | |||||
| PLA Bedford | c Watson b Beattie | 9 | |||||
| CN Crompton | c Curwood b Beattie | 13 | |||||
| BF Hodgkins | b Beattie | 0 | |||||
| GG Hammond | lbw b Seal | 33 | |||||
| PK Rofe | not out | 27 | |||||
| CJ McKenzie | b McConnell | 8 | |||||
| IHW Jones | b Leigh | 11 | |||||
| GW Boyd | b Leigh | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 3 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43 overs) | 155 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-6, 3-20, 4-48, 5-59, 6-103, 7-103, 8-118, 9-141, 10-155 (43 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Leigh | 15 | 2 | 51 | 3 | - | ||
| Beattie | 10 | 0 | 51 | 4 | - | ||
| Seal | 11 | 3 | 31 | 1 | - | ||
| McConnell | 7 | 0 | 16 | 2 | - | ||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| M Venes | c Hammond b Boyd | 3 | |||||
| VJ Roach | c Bedford b McKenzie | 26 | |||||
| B Moloney | b Boyd | 0 | |||||
| LR Joslin | not out | 48 | |||||
| RCW Watson | c Bedford b McKenzie | 1 | |||||
| BJ McConnell | not out | 3 | |||||
| NW Curwood | did not bat | ||||||
| +RA Hewat | did not bat | ||||||
| TE Seal | did not bat | ||||||
| *AR Leigh | did not bat | ||||||
| BC Beattie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 1 lb, 3 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 25 overs) | 89 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-6, 3-72, 4-85 | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Boyd | 6 | 2 | 18 | 2 | - | ||
| Jones | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | ||
| McKenzie | 7 | 2 | 24 | 2 | - | ||
| Huntington | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | ||
| Hammond | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | ||