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| Venue | Princes Park, Melbourne on 27th November, 4th December 1976 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Carlton won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Carlton won on first innings) |
| Points | Carlton 6; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | RC Isherwood, RV Whitehead |
| Close of play day 1 | Carlton (1) 274/7 (Masterton 11*, Poppleton 4*) |
| Carlton first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL Stillman | lbw b Davis | 32 | |||||
| RP Browning | c John b Daffey | 69 | |||||
| H Martin | b Grant | 74 | |||||
| WJ Scholes | b Grant | 38 | |||||
| JS Miller | c McLennan b Adams | 9 | |||||
| *KR Stackpole | run out | 11 | |||||
| JR Douglas | run out | 9 | |||||
| WJ Masterton | not out | 11 | |||||
| SM Poppleton | not out | 4 | |||||
| +CB Kinnear | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Miles | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 7 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 74 overs) | 274 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-51, 2-176, 3-192, 4-234, 5-238, 6-258, 7-260 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daffey | 14 | 1 | 73 | 1 | |||
| Adams | 18 | 3 | 52 | 1 | |||
| Grant | 21 | 2 | 69 | 2 | |||
| Davis | 9 | 0 | 27 | 1 | |||
| Kirby | 12 | 2 | 36 | 0 | |||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | c Kinnear b Douglas | 3 | |||||
| GK John | b Douglas | 20 | |||||
| JA MacWhirter | c Kinnear b Douglas | 38 | |||||
| RFR Howe | b Stackpole | 6 | |||||
| *KH Davis | c Scholes b Stackpole | 58 | |||||
| RF McLennan | b Stackpole | 5 | |||||
| JW Grant | c Kinnear b Poppleton | 0 | |||||
| +HH Ford | lbw b Masterton | 12 | |||||
| KW Kirby | b Masterton | 29 | |||||
| KE Adams | c Scholes b Masterton | 6 | |||||
| PM Daffey | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 1 lb, 15 nb, 1 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 67.7 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-58, 3-72, 4-88, 5-99, 6-102, 7-122, 8-189, 9-195, 10-199 (67.7 ov) | |||||||
| Carlton bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Douglas | 19 | 1 | 54 | 3 | |||
| Poppleton | 12 | 2 | 31 | 1 | |||
| Stackpole | 24 | 7 | 46 | 3 | |||
| Masterton | 9.7 | 0 | 37 | 3 | |||
| Scholes | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Carlton second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WJ Masterton | not out | 1 | |||||
| +CB Kinnear | not out | 0 | |||||
| WL Stillman | did not bat | ||||||
| RP Browning | did not bat | ||||||
| H Martin | did not bat | ||||||
| WJ Scholes | did not bat | ||||||
| JS Miller | did not bat | ||||||
| *KR Stackpole | did not bat | ||||||
| JR Douglas | did not bat | ||||||
| SM Poppleton | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Miles | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 1 overs) | 1 | |||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Peter-Budge | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||