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| Venue | Albert Ground, Melbourne on 16th, 23rd, 30th March 1946 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essendon won by an innings and 102 runs |
| Umpires | AN Barlow, F Rooney |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 72/3 (Thoms 31*, Rawle 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Essendon (1) 316/8 (Lovelock 32*, Vosti 2*) |
| Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GS Meikle | c Lovelock b Arnold | 49 | |||||
| BT Taylor | c Thoms b Reynolds | 6 | |||||
| J Daniel | c Blundell b Wilson | 3 | |||||
| *PJ Beames | b Wilson | 0 | |||||
| SS Blair | c Blundell b Stephens | 26 | |||||
| RM Holten | c Blundell b Stephens | 0 | |||||
| JG Green | c Lovelock b Arnold | 9 | |||||
| LN Ley | c McNeel b Stephens | 20 | |||||
| JD Kinnear | c Reynolds b Arnold | 4 | |||||
| +GA Collins | not out | 3 | |||||
| LO Fleetwood-Smith | st Lovelock b Stephens | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 32.1 overs) | 131 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17, 2-19, 3-23, 4-78, 5-79, 6-93, 7-104, 8-120, 9-124, 10-131 (32.1 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 6 | 2 | 22 | 2 | - | ||
| Reynolds | 6 | 1 | 17 | 1 | - | ||
| Arnold | 10 | 2 | 38 | 3 | - | ||
| Stephens | 9.1 | 0 | 43 | 4 | - | ||
| Rawle | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GR Thoms | c Collins b Meikle | 64 | |||||
| NC Blundell | c Collins b Daniel | 0 | |||||
| WY Wilson | b Fleetwood-Smith | 20 | |||||
| JID Leembruggen | lbw b Daniel | 16 | |||||
| KT Rawle | st Collins b Green | 80 | |||||
| WG McNeel | c Collins b Kinnear | 18 | |||||
| JL Stephens | b Green | 24 | |||||
| *+OI Lovelock | c and b Holten | 61 | |||||
| PN Arnold | c Daniel b Fleetwood-Smith | 43 | |||||
| AR Vosti | c Meikle b Ley | 54 | |||||
| RS Reynolds | not out | 14 | |||||
| Extras | (18 b, 3 lb, 1 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 104 overs) | 416 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5, 2-46, 3-72, 4-146, 5-185, 6-233, 7-244, 8-312, 9-375, 10-416 (104 ov) | |||||||
| Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Daniel | 23 | 6 | 48 | 2 | - | ||
| Kinnear | 27 | 8 | 96 | 1 | - | ||
| Taylor | 7 | 1 | 29 | 0 | - | ||
| Fleetwood-Smith | 17 | 2 | 84 | 2 | - | ||
| Meikle | 14 | 2 | 63 | 1 | - | ||
| Green | 8 | 1 | 24 | 2 | - | ||
| Holten | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | ||
| Blair | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | ||
| Beames | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | ||
| Ley | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | ||
| Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GS Meikle | c and b Wilson | 17 | |||||
| BT Taylor | st Lovelock b Blundell | 19 | |||||
| SS Blair | b Wilson | 7 | |||||
| RM Holten | c Stephens b Blundell | 24 | |||||
| JG Green | lbw b Blundell | 46 | |||||
| LN Ley | c Lovelock b Blundell | 35 | |||||
| J Daniel | c Vosti b Wilson | 29 | |||||
| JD Kinnear | c Lovelock b Blundell | 5 | |||||
| +GA Collins | not out | 0 | |||||
| LO Fleetwood-Smith | absent | ||||||
| *PJ Beames | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (1 nb) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 35.3 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-35, 3-46, 4-95, 5-144, 6-161, 7-175, 8-183 (35.3 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wilson | 8.3 | 0 | 35 | 3 | - | ||
| Reynolds | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | - | ||
| Arnold | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | ||
| Blundell | 12 | 0 | 86 | 5 | - | ||
| Stephens | 6 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | ||
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