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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 21st, 28th October 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | University won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Footscray 0; University 0 |
| Umpires | KJ Carmody, CO Jones |
| Close of play day 1 | University (1) 242/8 (Miles 12*, Knight 4*) |
| University first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KJ Baddeley | c Ryan b O'Neill | 34 | |||||
| PD Whitehead | c James b Dredge | 33 | |||||
| RJ Peers | c O'Neill b Dredge | 17 | |||||
| *PD Burke | c Watson b Ryan | 67 | |||||
| MES Jensen | c Watson b Ryan | 53 | |||||
| RF van Cuylenburg | run out | 0 | |||||
| AJ Geddes | c James b Dredge | 6 | |||||
| +GJ Miles | not out | 12 | |||||
| PD Hubble | b Ryan | 2 | |||||
| DJ Knight | not out | 4 | |||||
| AJ McCready-Bryan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 6 nb, 1 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 73 overs) | 242 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-65, 2-92, 3-94, 4-216, 5-216, 6-217, 7-230, 8-233 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 19 | 2 | 61 | 3 | |||
| Watson | 10 | 2 | 45 | 0 | |||
| Gilham | 10 | 1 | 31 | 0 | |||
| Ryan | 8 | 1 | 22 | 3 | |||
| Bright | 21 | 6 | 61 | 0 | |||
| O'Neill | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AJ Paone | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Stone | did not bat | ||||||
| MV Richardson | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Bright | did not bat | ||||||
| WK Patterson | did not bat | ||||||
| WL O'Neill | did not bat | ||||||
| *+LH James | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Ryan | did not bat | ||||||
| GC Gilham | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Dredge | did not bat | ||||||