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| Venue | Westgarth Street Oval, Melbourne on 25th February, 3rd March 1956 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn (Essendon won on first innings) |
| Points | Northcote 0; Essendon 6 |
| Umpires | EJ Hamid, RG Hele |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 265/7 innings closed |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DH Foster | run out | 38 | |||||
| I Monks | c Lawry b Rotherham | 30 | |||||
| M Dillon | c and b Rotherham | 0 | |||||
| NL Allanson | not out | 105 | |||||
| FG Leslie | run out | 32 | |||||
| B Ogle | b Anderson | 21 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Gough b Rotherham | 15 | |||||
| GM McPherson | c and b Rotherham | 8 | |||||
| JA Ross | not out | 15 | |||||
| JL Crouch | did not bat | ||||||
| IT Clay | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 62 overs) | 265 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-66, 2-66, 3-81, 4-145, 5-201, 6-230, 7-242 | |||||||
| Northcote bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 15 | 0 | 85 | 1 | - | - | |
| Brown | 14 | 0 | 60 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rotherham | 21 | 2 | 86 | 4 | - | - | |
| Dudley | 12 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Northcote first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WM Lawry | lbw b Clay | 14 | |||||
| +DJ Gough | c Ross b Crouch | 104 | |||||
| RJ McLachlan | b Dillon | 7 | |||||
| JL Greenland | c Nunn b Ross | 2 | |||||
| LG Bridges | c Foster b Dillon | 1 | |||||
| RC Beel | c Nunn b Dillon | 25 | |||||
| *WJ Dudley | c Dillon b Crouch | 28 | |||||
| W Rotherham | c McPherson b Clay | 27 | |||||
| S Kruger | c and b Crouch | 2 | |||||
| W Brown | not out | 3 | |||||
| DT Anderson | run out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 3 nb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 52.2 overs) | 225 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44, 2-61, 3-80, 4-89, 5-129, 6-166, 7-207, 8-220, 9-221, 10-225 (52.2 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McPherson | 9 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |||
| Clay | 11.2 | 2 | 45 | 2 | |||
| Dillon | 14 | 3 | 37 | 3 | |||
| Ross | 6 | 0 | 29 | 1 | |||
| Crouch | 12 | 0 | 62 | 3 | |||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JL Crouch | st Gough b Greenland | 0 | |||||
| IT Clay | c Gough b Lawry | 0 | |||||
| B Ogle | not out | 5 | |||||
| JA Ross | run out | 11 | |||||
| FG Leslie | not out | 3 | |||||
| DH Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| I Monks | did not bat | ||||||
| M Dillon | did not bat | ||||||
| NL Allanson | did not bat | ||||||
| *+HA Nunn | did not bat | ||||||
| GM McPherson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 6 overs) | 19 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-0, 3-14 | |||||||
| Northcote bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lawry | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Greenland | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Bridges | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Beel | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
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