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| Venue | Kardinia Park, Geelong on 24th February, 2nd March 1996 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Geelong won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Melbourne won on first innings) |
| Points | Geelong 0; Melbourne 6 |
| Umpires | C Baulch, DW Holt |
| Close of play day 1 | Melbourne (1) 73/3 (Hodge 25*, Herman 24*) |
| Geelong first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SN Lindsay | c Scalzo b McCague | 9 | |||||
| BP Grapsas | c Ayres b McCague | 4 | |||||
| JR Bakker | c Ayres b Herman | 66 | |||||
| AT Croft | c Scalzo b Herman | 8 | |||||
| CJ Peake | run out | 0 | |||||
| TL Anderson | c Templeton b McCooke | 2 | |||||
| +RX Hassett | c Scalzo b McCooke | 0 | |||||
| BJ Stacey | lbw b McCague | 61 | |||||
| AR Jefferies | c Templeton b McCague | 1 | |||||
| *PJ Cox | c Scalzo b McCague | 9 | |||||
| IC Barrot | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (13 lb, 8 nb, 1 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 72.5 overs) | 182 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-24, 3-39, 4-43, 5-59, 6-59, 7-169, 8-169, 9-171, 10-182 (72.5 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McCague | 17.5 | 7 | 34 | 5 | |||
| Herman | 18 | 6 | 30 | 2 | |||
| Hickey | 13 | 3 | 30 | 0 | |||
| McCooke | 12 | 2 | 31 | 2 | |||
| Johnston | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |||
| Hodge | 6 | 2 | 22 | 0 | |||
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Scalzo | b Barrot | 3 | |||||
| WG Ayres | c Hassett b Bakker | 14 | |||||
| DM Jones | c Hassett b Barrot | 1 | |||||
| BJ Hodge | c Jefferies b Stacey | 108 | |||||
| RJ Herman | c Anderson b Stacey | 125 | |||||
| *MWD Sholly | c Peake b Stacey | 34 | |||||
| SM McCooke | b Barrot | 28 | |||||
| +RI Templeton | c Stacey b Peake | 52 | |||||
| DA Johnston | b Grapsas | 16 | |||||
| MJ McCague | b Barrot | 0 | |||||
| DJ Hickey | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 8 nb, 3 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 121 overs) | 399 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5, 2-7, 3-39, 4-241, 5-268, 6-315, 7-328, 8-328, 9-389, 10-399 (121 ov) | |||||||
| Geelong bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Barrot | 27 | 4 | 79 | 4 | |||
| Jefferies | 21 | 4 | 55 | 0 | |||
| Stacey | 27 | 3 | 116 | 3 | |||
| Bakker | 19 | 4 | 55 | 1 | |||
| Croft | 8 | 1 | 36 | 0 | |||
| Cox | 9 | 1 | 23 | 0 | |||
| Peake | 8 | 0 | 29 | 1 | |||
| Grapsas | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Geelong second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SN Lindsay | not out | 1 | |||||
| BP Grapsas | not out | 12 | |||||
| JR Bakker | did not bat | ||||||
| AT Croft | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Peake | did not bat | ||||||
| TL Anderson | did not bat | ||||||
| +RX Hassett | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Stacey | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Jefferies | did not bat | ||||||
| *PJ Cox | did not bat | ||||||
| IC Barrot | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 15 overs) | 17 | |||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hodge | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | ||
| Scalzo | 7 | 3 | 12 | 0 | - | ||
| Templeton | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | - | ||