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| Venue | Richmond Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 7th, 14th February 1976 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Richmond won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Richmond won on first innings) |
| Points | Richmond 6; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | KR Butler, KJ Carmody |
| Close of play day 1 | Richmond (1) 262 all out |
| Richmond first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AC Hargreaves | c Ford b Daffey | 52 | |||||
| RJ Sincock | lbw b Adams | 16 | |||||
| IC Simpson | c Smith b Adams | 10 | |||||
| *JT Irvine | c Smith b Kirby | 73 | |||||
| GW Richardson | c Daffey b Kirby | 28 | |||||
| MJ Bowtell | c Grant b Kirby | 34 | |||||
| JI Russ | c Howe b Kirby | 1 | |||||
| DM Juriansz | run out | 22 | |||||
| GC Paterson | c and b Kirby | 2 | |||||
| +DR Cowper | not out | 15 | |||||
| JF Leehane | c Adams b Kirby | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 2 lb, 4 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 57.2 overs) | 262 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29, 2-51, 3-131, 4-164, 5-216, 6-221, 7-224, 8-238, 9-254, 10-262 (57.2 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daffey | 10 | 1 | 47 | 1 | - | ||
| Adams | 15 | 1 | 52 | 2 | - | ||
| Grant | 11 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | ||
| Kirby | 16.2 | 1 | 75 | 6 | - | ||
| Davis | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | lbw b Russ | 3 | |||||
| RFR Howe | b Russ | 41 | |||||
| DJM Smith | c Irvine b Russ | 6 | |||||
| KH Davis | run out | 14 | |||||
| BA Nunn | c Leehane b Paterson | 4 | |||||
| MJ Mitchell | c Cowper b Russ | 4 | |||||
| *JW Grant | c Paterson b Simpson | 56 | |||||
| +HH Ford | c Simpson b Russ | 0 | |||||
| KW Kirby | c Hargreaves b Russ | 19 | |||||
| KE Adams | c Russ b Juriansz | 30 | |||||
| PM Daffey | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 8 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 47.5 overs) | 190 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15, 2-21, 3-53, 4-62, 5-80, 6-85, 7-85, 8-141, 9-190, 10-190 (47.5 ov) | |||||||
| Richmond bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Leehane | 13 | 5 | 59 | 0 | - | ||
| Paterson | 6 | 2 | 9 | 1 | - | ||
| Russ | 15.5 | 4 | 43 | 6 | - | ||
| Juriansz | 7 | 3 | 46 | 1 | - | ||
| Simpson | 6 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - | ||
| Richmond second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AC Hargreaves | b Daffey | 11 | |||||
| RJ Sincock | not out | 8 | |||||
| IC Simpson | c Howe b Kirby | 4 | |||||
| GW Richardson | not out | 4 | |||||
| *JT Irvine | did not bat | ||||||
| MJ Bowtell | did not bat | ||||||
| JI Russ | did not bat | ||||||
| DM Juriansz | did not bat | ||||||
| GC Paterson | did not bat | ||||||
| +DR Cowper | did not bat | ||||||
| JF Leehane | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 6 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 10 overs) | 35 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16, 2-30 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daffey | 4 | 0 | 14 | 1 | - | ||
| Adams | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | ||
| Mitchell | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | - | ||
| Kirby | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | ||