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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 13th, 20th January 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Collingwood won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Footscray 0; Collingwood 0 |
| Umpires | A Farrow, DG Forbes |
| Close of play day 1 | Collingwood (1) 203/6 (Cameron 32*, Sleeman 23*) |
| Collingwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *RJ Baldry | lbw b Watson | 64 | |||||
| C Bransgrove | c Gilham b Watson | 39 | |||||
| TJ Laughlin | c James b Watson | 3 | |||||
| ND Peart | run out | 17 | |||||
| CA Tully | c Davidson b Watson | 0 | |||||
| PE Laydon | c James b Ryan | 12 | |||||
| +R Cameron | not out | 32 | |||||
| G Sleeman | not out | 23 | |||||
| JR Berechree | did not bat | ||||||
| GS Coles | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Corstorphin | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 10 nb, 2 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 68 overs) | 203 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-101, 2-105, 3-120, 4-120, 5-141, 6-150 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Bennett | 10 | 3 | 34 | 0 | |||
| Watson | 28 | 6 | 69 | 4 | |||
| Ryan | 20 | 2 | 55 | 1 | |||
| Gilham | 10 | 3 | 32 | 0 | |||
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AJ Paone | did not bat | ||||||
| KW Stone | did not bat | ||||||
| MV Richardson | did not bat | ||||||
| WK Patterson | did not bat | ||||||
| GJ Anderton | did not bat | ||||||
| *+LH James | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Ryan | did not bat | ||||||
| LC Davidson | did not bat | ||||||
| GC Gilham | did not bat | ||||||
| WR Bennett | did not bat | ||||||