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| Venue | Russell Lucas Oval, Melbourne on 18th, 25th February 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Ringwood won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Ringwood won on first innings) |
| Points | Ringwood 6; Essendon 0 |
| Umpires | B de Jonk, J Henry |
| Close of play day 1 | Ringwood (1) 284 all out |
| Ringwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Gardner | c Webb b Ross | 1 | |||||
| DB Drew | c Peter-Budge b Barton | 79 | |||||
| NF Clarke | c MacWhirter b Webb | 8 | |||||
| TJ Harms | lbw b Kirby | 40 | |||||
| RJ Tomlinson | c Mirovich b Barton | 14 | |||||
| *RG Lloyd | b Davis | 63 | |||||
| +MCA York | c Mirovich b Barton | 15 | |||||
| CL Harms | c Nunn b Barton | 5 | |||||
| PW Binns | not out | 42 | |||||
| SA Christie | c MacWhirter b Kirby | 2 | |||||
| AL Thomson | st Mirovich b Kirby | 9 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 3 nb, 1 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.6 overs) | 284 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-28, 3-121, 4-143, 5-153, 6-187, 7-195, 8-257, 9-263, 10-284 (68.6 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ross | 15 | 1 | 56 | 1 | |||
| Webb | 17 | 3 | 72 | 1 | |||
| Kirby | 19.6 | 0 | 76 | 3 | |||
| Barton | 15 | 1 | 63 | 4 | |||
| Davis | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | c Binns b Christie | 15 | |||||
| JA MacWhirter | c Tomlinson b Christie | 5 | |||||
| DJM Smith | c York b Christie | 11 | |||||
| RFR Howe | c Gardner b Thomson | 30 | |||||
| *KH Davis | st York b CL Harms | 19 | |||||
| BA Nunn | lbw b Christie | 53 | |||||
| KW Kirby | b Thomson | 60 | |||||
| GT Ross | run out | 0 | |||||
| GN Webb | c Clarke b Lloyd | 5 | |||||
| +G Mirovich | not out | 9 | |||||
| GM Barton | c York b Binns | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 61.2 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14, 2-30, 3-37, 4-76, 5-89, 6-188, 7-189, 8-197, 9-203, 10-212 (61.2 ov) | |||||||
| Ringwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Christie | 19 | 4 | 50 | 4 | - | ||
| Thomson | 19 | 4 | 72 | 2 | - | ||
| Tomlinson | 6 | 3 | 21 | 0 | - | ||
| CL Harms | 5 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | ||
| Binns | 4.2 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | ||
| Lloyd | 8 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | ||
| Ringwood second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Gardner | b Smith | 3 | |||||
| RJ Tomlinson | not out | 3 | |||||
| NF Clarke | not out | 0 | |||||
| DB Drew | did not bat | ||||||
| TJ Harms | did not bat | ||||||
| *RG Lloyd | did not bat | ||||||
| +MCA York | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Harms | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Binns | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Christie | did not bat | ||||||
| AL Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 1 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 5 overs) | 10 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Gardner) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nunn | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | ||
| Howe | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | ||
| Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | ||
| Mirovich | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||
| Peter-Budge | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | ||