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| Venue | Russell Lucas Oval, Melbourne on 26th, 28th January 1980 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Ringwood 0; Essendon 6 |
| Umpires | T Dey, RC Isherwood |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 32/4 (Lanyon 0*, Young 2*) |
| Ringwood first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Gardner | c John b Webb | 1 | |||||
| GS Fox | c John b Ross | 16 | |||||
| TJ Harms | c Lanyon b Barton | 13 | |||||
| +MCA York | c Sandri b Ross | 0 | |||||
| *RJ Tomlinson | b Ross | 4 | |||||
| BA Stephens | b Barton | 28 | |||||
| PA Newton | c Barton b Webb | 9 | |||||
| NF Mitchell | c John b Kirby | 30 | |||||
| CL Harms | c Shaw b Kirby | 5 | |||||
| SA Christie | c Peter-Budge b Kirby | 6 | |||||
| DM Stranger | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 5 nb, 2 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 57.5 overs) | 121 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-28, 3-28, 4-34, 5-69, 6-86, 7-88, 8-106, 9-117, 10-121 (57.5 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ross | 15 | 2 | 34 | 3 | |||
| Webb | 15 | 4 | 29 | 2 | |||
| Barton | 12 | 5 | 18 | 2 | |||
| Kirby | 15.5 | 5 | 31 | 3 | |||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Peter-Budge | c Tomlinson b Christie | 1 | |||||
| S Sandri | c Stephens b Christie | 17 | |||||
| JO Mulligan | c Stephens b Christie | 2 | |||||
| +GK John | c Gardner b CL Harms | 9 | |||||
| DJ Lanyon | run out | 5 | |||||
| PW Young | c and b Tomlinson | 51 | |||||
| RB Shaw | b Stranger | 51 | |||||
| *GT Ross | c TJ Harms b CL Harms | 25 | |||||
| KW Kirby | b CL Harms | 29 | |||||
| GN Webb | c Mitchell b Tomlinson | 0 | |||||
| GM Barton | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 109.1 overs) | 194 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-9, 3-30, 4-30, 5-48, 6-128, 7-146, 8-193, 9-194, 10-194 (109.1 ov) | |||||||
| Ringwood bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Christie | 15 | 4 | 29 | 3 | - | ||
| Tomlinson | 28.1 | 12 | 42 | 2 | - | ||
| Stranger | 25 | 8 | 60 | 1 | - | ||
| CL Harms | 34 | 14 | 47 | 3 | - | ||
| Fox | 7 | 3 | 12 | 0 | - | ||
| Ringwood second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PJ Gardner | b Kirby | 5 | |||||
| CL Harms | c and b Shaw | 20 | |||||
| GS Fox | not out | 8 | |||||
| BA Stephens | not out | 1 | |||||
| TJ Harms | did not bat | ||||||
| +MCA York | did not bat | ||||||
| *RJ Tomlinson | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Newton | did not bat | ||||||
| NF Mitchell | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Christie | did not bat | ||||||
| DM Stranger | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 14 overs) | 34 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10, 2-30 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kirby | 5 | 2 | 11 | 1 | |||
| Lanyon | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Shaw | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Young | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Peter-Budge | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||