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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 3rd, 10th November 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Footscray won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Footscray won on first innings) |
| Points | Footscray 6; Northcote 0 |
| Umpires | T Dey, G Hamilton |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 220 all out |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WL O'Neill | c Fitzpatrick b Knight | 2 | |||||
| AJ Paone | b Knight | 50 | |||||
| MV Richardson | b Knight | 2 | |||||
| GJ Anderton | st O'Sullivan b Frost | 75 | |||||
| WK Patterson | c Goldsmith b Knight | 7 | |||||
| LC Davidson | c Wildsmith b Knight | 14 | |||||
| BJ Watson | c Goldsmith b McArdle | 35 | |||||
| *+LH James | c and b McArdle | 13 | |||||
| DJ Ryan | lbw b McArdle | 11 | |||||
| WR Bennett | lbw b Frost | 0 | |||||
| PW Dredge | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 82.5 overs) | 220 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5, 2-7, 3-107, 4-118, 5-152, 6-156, 7-196, 8-211, 9-212, 10-220 (82.5 ov) | |||||||
| Northcote bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Knight | 22 | 2 | 46 | 5 | |||
| McArdle | 23.5 | 7 | 47 | 3 | |||
| MacKenzie | 11 | 1 | 26 | 0 | |||
| Frost | 16 | 2 | 52 | 2 | |||
| Blair | 10 | 1 | 41 | 0 | |||
| Northcote first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Goldsmith | run out | 5 | |||||
| K Fitzpatrick | c Anderton b Watson | 34 | |||||
| BJ McArdle | lbw b Dredge | 41 | |||||
| A Wildsmith | run out | 0 | |||||
| L Clay | c Patterson b Ryan | 5 | |||||
| *GD Blair | c James b Watson | 1 | |||||
| SA Wilding | c Paone b Ryan | 8 | |||||
| +MJ O'Sullivan | c Dredge b Watson | 4 | |||||
| RD MacKenzie | not out | 5 | |||||
| GP Frost | c James b Ryan | 0 | |||||
| DJ Knight | c Richardson b Ryan | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (2 nb, 2 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 63.4 overs) | 107 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-63, 3-63, 4-76, 5-77, 6-96, 7-102, 8-102, 9-105, 10-107 (63.4 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dredge | 16 | 7 | 25 | 1 | |||
| Watson | 28 | 10 | 39 | 3 | |||
| Bennett | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| Ryan | 13.4 | 5 | 20 | 4 | |||
| Davidson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Footscray second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MV Richardson | b Knight | 4 | |||||
| WL O'Neill | run out | 3 | |||||
| GJ Anderton | run out | 0 | |||||
| WK Patterson | not out | 17 | |||||
| LC Davidson | not out | 3 | |||||
| AJ Paone | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| *+LH James | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Ryan | did not bat | ||||||
| WR Bennett | did not bat | ||||||
| PW Dredge | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 15 overs) | 27 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-7, 3-7 | |||||||
| Northcote bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Knight | 8 | 3 | 12 | 1 | |||
| McArdle | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||
| MacKenzie | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||