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| Venue | St Kilda Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 12th, 19th December 1987 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | North Melbourne-Geelong won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (North Melbourne-Geelong won on first innings) |
| Points | St Kilda 0; North Melbourne-Geelong 6 |
| Umpires | DE Holden, A Nicosia, B Wells |
| Close of play day 1 | North Melbourne-Geelong (1) 269/6 innings closed |
| North Melbourne-Geelong first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JM Markham | c Cosier b Chambers | 4 | |||||
| KJ Neville | st Jacoby b Lynch | 30 | |||||
| *IF Sartori | c Johnstone b Fontaine | 5 | |||||
| DA Harris | c Johnstone b Fontaine | 108 | |||||
| PJ Cox | not out | 68 | |||||
| RCAM McCarthy | c Chambers b Fontaine | 28 | |||||
| P Howarth | run out | 14 | |||||
| GT Ross | not out | 0 | |||||
| RG Mott | did not bat | ||||||
| CA Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| +TR Cox | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 7 nb, 2 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 95 overs) | 269 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7, 2-15, 3-95, 4-199, 5-235, 6-262 | |||||||
| St Kilda bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Chambers | 14 | 3 | 28 | 1 | |||
| Fontaine | 28 | 6 | 98 | 3 | |||
| Knight | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
| Cosier | 14 | 7 | 18 | 0 | |||
| Graf | 13 | 1 | 57 | 0 | |||
| Lynch | 21 | 6 | 56 | 1 | |||
| St Kilda first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SR Maddocks | c Taylor b PJ Cox | 30 | |||||
| DM Johnstone | b McCarthy | 44 | |||||
| AW Lynch | c TR Cox b PJ Cox | 4 | |||||
| J Murphy | c TR Cox b McCarthy | 34 | |||||
| +JR Jacoby | lbw b McCarthy | 6 | |||||
| GF Fontaine | c TR Cox b McCarthy | 19 | |||||
| *GJ Cosier | c Sartori b McCarthy | 9 | |||||
| SF Graf | c Sartori b PJ Cox | 20 | |||||
| PR Buchanan | not out | 3 | |||||
| PG Chambers | c TR Cox b McCarthy | 0 | |||||
| PJ Knight | st TR Cox b PJ Cox | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 lb, 6 nb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 71.4 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-82, 2-86, 3-94, 4-103, 5-130, 6-140, 7-173, 8-177, 9-177, 10-183 (71.4 ov) | |||||||
| North Melbourne-Geelong bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McCarthy | 20 | 3 | 65 | 6 | |||
| Ross | 20 | 7 | 52 | 0 | |||
| Taylor | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |||
| PJ Cox | 25.4 | 13 | 43 | 4 | |||
| North Melbourne-Geelong second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KJ Neville | not out | 19 | |||||
| JM Markham | not out | 11 | |||||
| *IF Sartori | did not bat | ||||||
| DA Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Cox | did not bat | ||||||
| RCAM McCarthy | did not bat | ||||||
| P Howarth | did not bat | ||||||
| GT Ross | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Mott | did not bat | ||||||
| CA Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| +TR Cox | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 nb, 2 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 15 overs) | 34 | |||||
| St Kilda bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Chambers | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Fontaine | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||
| Knight | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Maddocks | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Johnstone | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Murphy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||