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| Venue | Western Oval, Melbourne on 2nd, 9th November 1996 (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; Essendon 0 |
| Close of play day 1 | Footscray (1) 326/7 (Cashen 41*, Williams 7*) |
| Footscray first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DG Wolfe | c Shannon b Inness | 7 | |||||
| GA Burns | c Popov b Blackwell | 110 | |||||
| MP O'Keefe | c Smith b Blackwell | 65 | |||||
| DA McDonald | c Dahl b Jones | 36 | |||||
| GE Gilham | lbw b Blackwell | 0 | |||||
| AIC Dodemaide | c Shannon b Blackwell | 7 | |||||
| *SJ Cashen | not out | 41 | |||||
| MG Hughes | c Popov b Inness | 14 | |||||
| SG Williams | not out | 7 | |||||
| DG Clemson | did not bat | ||||||
| +R Reber | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 13 lb, 24 nb) | 39 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 100 overs) | 326 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10, 2-174, 3-231, 4-232, 5-256, 6-264, 7-292 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Inness | 19 | 8 | 37 | 2 | - | ||
| Jones | 21 | 3 | 61 | 1 | - | ||
| Smith | 19 | 5 | 57 | 0 | - | ||
| Law | 10 | 2 | 46 | 0 | - | ||
| Matthews | 8 | 3 | 34 | 0 | - | ||
| Blackwell | 18 | 1 | 58 | 4 | - | ||
| Tate | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +JF Shannon | lbw b McDonald | 9 | |||||
| LDJ Dahl | c Reber b Hughes | 2 | |||||
| DK Popov | c O'Keefe b Williams | 19 | |||||
| AD Kellett | c Burns b McDonald | 5 | |||||
| TJ Blackwell | lbw b Hughes | 21 | |||||
| DR Law | c Clemson b Hughes | 2 | |||||
| *DA Tate | b Hughes | 0 | |||||
| CJ Jones | not out | 14 | |||||
| SJ Matthews | c Wolfe b Hughes | 0 | |||||
| AC Smith | c Wolfe b Hughes | 0 | |||||
| MWH Inness | c Hughes b Williams | 22 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 10 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 55.5 overs) | 107 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-19, 3-37, 4-60, 5-63, 6-63, 7-70, 8-74, 9-78, 10-107 (55.5 ov) | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hughes | 21 | 7 | 39 | 6 | - | ||
| Clemson | 14 | 7 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| McDonald | 6 | 2 | 17 | 2 | - | ||
| Williams | 14.5 | 4 | 30 | 2 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +JF Shannon | lbw b Clemson | 11 | |||||
| LDJ Dahl | c Burton b Clemson | 7 | |||||
| DK Popov | lbw b Clemson | 7 | |||||
| AD Kellett | not out | 34 | |||||
| TJ Blackwell | c Reber b Burton | 3 | |||||
| DR Law | c Reber b Burton | 2 | |||||
| *DA Tate | b Burton | 2 | |||||
| CJ Jones | c McDonald b Hughes | 3 | |||||
| SJ Matthews | c Reber b Clemson | 4 | |||||
| AC Smith | not out | 0 | |||||
| MWH Inness | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 45 overs) | 80 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18, 2-28, 3-29, 4-49, 5-51, 6-61, 7-69, 8-78 | |||||||
| Footscray bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hughes | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | ||
| Clemson | 15 | 5 | 28 | 4 | - | ||
| Williams | 15 | 6 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| Burton | 10 | 3 | 18 | 3 | - | ||