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| Venue | Glenferrie Oval, Melbourne on 17th, 24th November 1973 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Hawthorn-East Melbourne 0; Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | J Lewis, JF Sheehan |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne (1) 215/8 (Docking 3*, Hennig 11*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AP Sheahan | lbw b Coller | 1 | |||||
| *GC Brown | c Wilson b Sieler | 136 | |||||
| RG Lamb | lbw b Shade | 23 | |||||
| RG Lloyd | lbw b Coller | 3 | |||||
| JK Moss | st Wilson b Sieler | 17 | |||||
| +CJ Dart | c Cowper b Sieler | 14 | |||||
| MHN Walker | c Hanson b Shade | 0 | |||||
| TW Docking | b Retallick | 3 | |||||
| AS MacGillivray | c Wilson b Sieler | 0 | |||||
| IC Hennig | not out | 22 | |||||
| NW Williams | lbw b Hutchens | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 3 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.2 overs) | 230 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-100, 3-124, 4-165, 5-195, 6-196, 7-201, 8-201, 9-215, 10-230 (68.2 ov) | |||||||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coller | 13 | 1 | 53 | 2 | - | ||
| Retallick | 11 | 1 | 49 | 1 | - | ||
| Sieler | 22 | 6 | 52 | 4 | - | ||
| Hutchens | 12.2 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | ||
| Shade | 10 | 0 | 43 | 2 | - | ||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AJ Sieler | c Lamb b Williams | 10 | |||||
| PGA Sundberg | lbw b Walker | 2 | |||||
| *RM Cowper | c Dart b Lamb | 45 | |||||
| KB Thomas | c Dart b Williams | 0 | |||||
| PR Hanson | c Brown b Williams | 9 | |||||
| TJ Rush | b Brown | 1 | |||||
| E Shade | c Docking b Lamb | 19 | |||||
| +RK Wilson | lbw b Hennig | 2 | |||||
| BP Hutchens | not out | 3 | |||||
| GR Coller | b Lamb | 2 | |||||
| AE Retallick | run out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 41.6 overs) | 101 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11, 2-23, 3-23, 4-49, 5-52, 6-87, 7-96, 8-96, 9-101, 10-101 (41.6 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Walker | 9 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | |
| Williams | 10 | 4 | 15 | 3 | - | - | |
| Brown | 6 | 1 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hennig | 10.6 | 3 | 23 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lamb | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AJ Sieler | b Williams | 5 | |||||
| PGA Sundberg | not out | 21 | |||||
| *RM Cowper | not out | 25 | |||||
| KB Thomas | did not bat | ||||||
| PR Hanson | did not bat | ||||||
| TJ Rush | did not bat | ||||||
| E Shade | did not bat | ||||||
| +RK Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| BP Hutchens | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Coller | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Retallick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 12 overs) | 51 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Sieler) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Walker | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Williams | 5 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |||
| Lamb | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| MacGillivray | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||