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| Venue | Princes Park, Melbourne on 19th, 26th October 1968 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Carlton 0; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | LB Graham, RC Isherwood |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 74/2 (Howe 47*, Brown 1*) |
| Carlton first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AL Gallagher | c O'Neill b Grant | 5 | |||||
| GA Bann | b Grant | 3 | |||||
| WJ Scholes | b Grant | 20 | |||||
| WB Hillhouse | b Kirby | 18 | |||||
| BR Knight | c Brown b Kirby | 38 | |||||
| TJ Trembath | c O'Neill b Kirby | 23 | |||||
| +RD Robinson | c Taylor b Kirby | 1 | |||||
| GC Nichol | st O'Neill b Kirby | 5 | |||||
| *BK Jones | b Grant | 0 | |||||
| SM Poppleton | c Johnston b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| DB Prowse | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 119 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-119 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Grant | ? | ? | 39 | 4 | - | - | |
| Goulding | ? | ? | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kirby | ? | ? | 39 | 6 | - | - | |
| Swanson | ? | ? | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RFR Howe | not out | 47 | |||||
| HH Ford | run out | 14 | |||||
| JD Swanson | b Gallagher | 11 | |||||
| GJ Brown | not out | 1 | |||||
| GC Johnston | did not bat | ||||||
| *MJ Mitchell | did not bat | ||||||
| JW Grant | did not bat | ||||||
| PH Goulding | did not bat | ||||||
| +TS O'Neill | did not bat | ||||||
| IJ Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Kirby | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 1 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets) | 74 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-? | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Poppleton | ? | ? | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Knight | ? | ? | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jones | ? | ? | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gallagher | ? | ? | 14 | 1 | - | - | |