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| Venue | Albert Ground, Melbourne on 20th, 21st, 27th March 1976 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Melbourne won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Umpires | KJ Carmody, WJ Copeland |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne (1) 281/7 (Sheahan 138*, Hennig 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Footscray (1) 144/6 (Bright 18*, Watson 1*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JK Moss | c James b Watson | 50 | |||||
| JG Anderson | c Bright b Culph | 11 | |||||
| DJ Broad | c Bright b Watson | 19 | |||||
| *AP Sheahan | not out | 189 | |||||
| GR Booth | b Culph | 23 | |||||
| PR Josephson | c Bright b Culph | 8 | |||||
| GM Swan | c James b Dredge | 24 | |||||
| +CJ Dart | run out | 4 | |||||
| IC Hennig | c James b Culph | 13 | |||||
| R Forsyth | b Dredge | 2 | |||||
| NW Williams | lbw b Watson | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 83 overs) | 348 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20, 2-73, 3-94, 4-172, 5-200, 6-268, 7-280, 8-315, 9-347, 10-348 (83 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 25 | 3 | 97 | 2 | - | ||
| Culph | 27 | 1 | 140 | 4 | - | ||
| Watson | 20 | 4 | 70 | 3 | - | ||
| Bright | 11 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | ||
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EB Gray | c Anderson b Williams | 1 | |||||
| RC Nicholls | c Sheahan b Swan | 21 | |||||
| KW Stone | c Forsyth b Swan | 15 | |||||
| GA Joslin | st Dart b Hennig | 47 | |||||
| AJ Paone | c Swan b Hennig | 25 | |||||
| RJ Bright | c Dart b Williams | 78 | |||||
| GJA Hansen | c Moss b Hennig | 3 | |||||
| BJ Watson | lbw b Broad | 14 | |||||
| *+LH James | c sub (DA Patrick) b Broad | 7 | |||||
| AT Culph | not out | 11 | |||||
| PW Dredge | b Williams | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 9 lb, 1 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 76.4 overs) | 239 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-33, 3-44, 4-112, 5-115, 6-137, 7-182, 8-193, 9-236, 10-239 (76.4 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Williams | 23.4 | 7 | 60 | 3 | - | ||
| Swan | 10 | 1 | 39 | 2 | - | ||
| Forsyth | 7 | 0 | 47 | 0 | - | ||
| Hennig | 27 | 8 | 40 | 3 | - | ||
| Josephson | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | ||
| Broad | 6 | 0 | 21 | 2 | - | ||
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JK Moss | c Stone b Bright | 83 | |||||
| JG Anderson | c Paone b Culph | 4 | |||||
| DJ Broad | c Paone b Nicholls | 52 | |||||
| GR Booth | not out | 16 | |||||
| *AP Sheahan | not out | 7 | |||||
| PR Josephson | did not bat | ||||||
| GM Swan | did not bat | ||||||
| +CJ Dart | did not bat | ||||||
| IC Hennig | did not bat | ||||||
| R Forsyth | did not bat | ||||||
| NW Williams | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 3 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 27 overs) | 172 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-133, 3-162 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 5 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |||
| Culph | 5 | 0 | 42 | 1 | |||
| Watson | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |||
| Bright | 6 | 1 | 28 | 1 | |||
| Paone | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Stone | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Joslin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Gray | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Hansen | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Nicholls | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||
| James | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||