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| Venue | Victoria Park, Melbourne on 18th, 25th November 1972 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Collingwood 0; Footscray 0 |
| Umpires | BC Neate, JF Sheehan |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 290/4 (Collins 67*, James 3*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RC Nicholls | c Townley b Laughlin | 52 | |||||
| AC Hargreaves | c Bird b Laughlin | 55 | |||||
| JN Collins | not out | 67 | |||||
| *KH Eastwood | c Gott b Emerson | 73 | |||||
| DJ Brown | run out | 28 | |||||
| +LH James | not out | 3 | |||||
| RJ Bright | did not bat | ||||||
| GF Ellis | did not bat | ||||||
| GN Gray | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Hurst | did not bat | ||||||
| DN Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 3 nb, 2 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 66 overs) | 290 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-97, 2-129, 3-247, 4-285 | |||||||
| Collingwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Corstorphin | 11 | 0 | 51 | 0 | |||
| Gott | 17 | 3 | 54 | 0 | |||
| Emerson | 16 | 0 | 78 | 1 | |||
| Costello | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Laughlin | 11 | 1 | 63 | 2 | |||
| Bird | 7 | 3 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Dougall | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Collingwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R Medland | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Peach | did not bat | ||||||
| GK Kemp | did not bat | ||||||
| *RP Bird | did not bat | ||||||
| TJ Laughlin | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Dougall | did not bat | ||||||
| +GA Townley | did not bat | ||||||
| JM Costello | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Gott | did not bat | ||||||
| NL Emerson | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Corstorphin | did not bat | ||||||