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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 3rd, 4th December 1977 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Footscray won on first innings) |
| Points | Footscray 6; Hawthorn-East Melbourne 0 |
| Umpires | DG Forbes, B Smallwood |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 325/9 (Balcam 15*, Dredge 3*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EB Gray | b Locke | 14 | |||||
| AJ Paone | st McGann b Thomas | 61 | |||||
| MV Richardson | b Locke | 16 | |||||
| KW Stone | c Thomas b Cook | 27 | |||||
| GJ Anderton | b Thomas | 24 | |||||
| *JN Shepherd | c Hendrie b Cook | 54 | |||||
| +LH James | c Thomas b Locke | 17 | |||||
| DJ Ryan | b Cook | 13 | |||||
| AT Culph | c Locke b Shade | 55 | |||||
| LF Balcam | not out | 15 | |||||
| PW Dredge | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 6 lb, 9 nb, 4 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 72 overs) | 325 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31, 2-80, 3-116, 4-145, 5-163, 6-222, 7-237, 8-253, 9-318 | |||||||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hendrie | 9 | 3 | 28 | 0 | |||
| Cook | 21 | 2 | 72 | 3 | |||
| Locke | 23 | 1 | 99 | 3 | |||
| Shade | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |||
| Thomas | 16 | 3 | 80 | 2 | |||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RG Matthews | c James b Balcam | 47 | |||||
| KB Thomas | b Balcam | 15 | |||||
| C Carter | c Dredge b Ryan | 15 | |||||
| GA Mackay | c James b Dredge | 17 | |||||
| AR McAlister | c James b Shepherd | 15 | |||||
| J Etherington | c Paone b Ryan | 2 | |||||
| *E Shade | c Richardson b Shepherd | 5 | |||||
| JC Hendrie | lbw b Ryan | 16 | |||||
| +TJ McGann | st James b Ryan | 14 | |||||
| PTB Locke | b Balcam | 11 | |||||
| GD Cook | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 7 nb, 3 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 60.3 overs) | 174 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-69, 2-76, 3-97, 4-119, 5-126, 6-127, 7-134, 8-152, 9-172, 10-174 (60.3 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 8 | 1 | 28 | 1 | |||
| Balcam | 11.3 | 0 | 38 | 3 | |||
| Shepherd | 21 | 4 | 49 | 2 | |||
| Culph | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Ryan | 16 | 4 | 32 | 4 | |||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| EB Gray | c McGann b Shade | 5 | |||||
| MV Richardson | lbw b Shade | 1 | |||||
| KW Stone | not out | 8 | |||||
| GJ Anderton | not out | 0 | |||||
| AJ Paone | did not bat | ||||||
| *JN Shepherd | did not bat | ||||||
| +LH James | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Ryan | did not bat | ||||||
| AT Culph | did not bat | ||||||
| LF Balcam | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Dredge | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 11 overs) | 17 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-12 | |||||||
| Hawthorn-East Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mackay | 5 | 3 | 7 | 0 | - | ||
| Shade | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | ||
| Matthews | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||