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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 14th, 21st December 1968 (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; North Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | LH Hawkes, JF Sheehan |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 309/3 (Joslin 40*, Ellis 0*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *KH Eastwood | b Harmer | 153 | |||||
| WL Dodd | c Duggan b Jeffrie | 80 | |||||
| LR Joslin | not out | 40 | |||||
| JB Sharp | c Jacobs b Harmer | 24 | |||||
| GF Ellis | not out | 0 | |||||
| +LH James | did not bat | ||||||
| GJA Hansen | did not bat | ||||||
| VJ Roach | did not bat | ||||||
| TE Seal | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Horsburgh | did not bat | ||||||
| RA Gaunt | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 7 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, declared, 61 overs) | 309 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-212, 2-250, 3-306 | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Jeffrie | 14 | 0 | 81 | 1 | - | ||
| Chapman | 18 | 2 | 76 | 0 | - | ||
| Harmer | 15 | 2 | 60 | 2 | - | ||
| Johnston | 12 | 1 | 62 | 0 | - | ||
| Bowman | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| North Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NG Jacobs | c Sharp b Seal | 63 | |||||
| GN Kilpatrick | c James b Gaunt | 6 | |||||
| RP Bowman | c Sharp b Gaunt | 14 | |||||
| RA Bright | c and b Seal | 12 | |||||
| DI Duggan | b Horsburgh | 4 | |||||
| *JC Harmer | c Horsburgh b Ellis | 14 | |||||
| GE Schaeche | b Seal | 12 | |||||
| +LA Borghesi | c Eastwood b Seal | 9 | |||||
| RR Chapman | b Seal | 27 | |||||
| DJ Jeffrie | c James b Seal | 0 | |||||
| RH Johnston | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb, 4 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 53.2 overs) | 175 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17, 2-49, 3-68, 4-74, 5-93, 6-109, 7-129, 8-156, 9-156, 10-175 (53.2 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gaunt | 8 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | ||
| Horsburgh | 10 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | ||
| Sharp | 6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | ||
| Seal | 18.2 | 5 | 44 | 6 | - | ||
| Ellis | 11 | 1 | 45 | 1 | - | ||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +LH James | c Bowman b Jeffrie | 33 | |||||
| GJA Hansen | not out | 23 | |||||
| VJ Roach | not out | 4 | |||||
| *KH Eastwood | did not bat | ||||||
| WL Dodd | did not bat | ||||||
| LR Joslin | did not bat | ||||||
| JB Sharp | did not bat | ||||||
| GF Ellis | did not bat | ||||||
| TE Seal | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Horsburgh | did not bat | ||||||
| RA Gaunt | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 11 overs) | 65 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60 (James) | |||||||
| North Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Jeffrie | 6 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | ||
| Chapman | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | ||
| Johnston | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | ||