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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 24th February, 3rd March 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (Waverley won on first innings) |
| Points | Essendon 0; Waverley 6 |
| Umpires | G Hamilton, R Henderson |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Waverley first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| P Deveson | run out | 46 | |||||
| DJ Rolfe | b Ross | 6 | |||||
| W Matthews | c DM Kirby b Ross | 49 | |||||
| GB McBurney | c John b Ross | 1 | |||||
| PJ Davies | b Ross | 16 | |||||
| *JM Hendry | c Mulligan b Ellis | 0 | |||||
| +PG Sacristani | not out | 1 | |||||
| RF Gill | not out | 2 | |||||
| JM Costello | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Coad | did not bat | ||||||
| IK Burnett | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed) | 131 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-? | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ross | ? | ? | 46 | 4 | - | - | |
| Ellis | ? | ? | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Young | ? | ? | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| KW Kirby | ? | ? | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | c Costello b Burnett | 0 | |||||
| IC Johnson | c Costello b Burnett | 0 | |||||
| RB Shaw | c Matthews b Burnett | 22 | |||||
| JO Mulligan | b Coad | 0 | |||||
| *RFR Howe | c Sacristani b Burnett | 26 | |||||
| DM Kirby | c Rolfe b Gill | 8 | |||||
| +GK John | run out | 20 | |||||
| GT Ross | c Davies b Gill | 14 | |||||
| PW Young | not out | 4 | |||||
| ME Ellis | b Burnett | 6 | |||||
| KW Kirby | c Davies b Gill | 3 | |||||
| Extras | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 115 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-115 | |||||||
| Waverley bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Burnett | ? | ? | 56 | 5 | - | - | |
| Coad | ? | ? | 9 | 1 | - | - | |
| Gill | ? | ? | 38 | 3 | - | - | |