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| Venue | Windy Hill, Melbourne on 17th, 24th November 1956 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Essendon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | South Melbourne won by 5 runs |
| Points | Essendon 0; South Melbourne 10 |
| Umpires | JA McDonald, WB Stickland |
| Close of play day 1 | Essendon (1) 32/3 (Nunn 10*, Foster 1*) |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BF Vawser | c Ogle b Thomson | 29 | |||||
| +GS Trueman | c Nunn b Upston | 1 | |||||
| JM Goodall | b Upston | 17 | |||||
| *J Hallebone | b Upston | 10 | |||||
| SE Matthews | c Peters b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| K Watson | c Peters b Thomson | 0 | |||||
| IW Quick | c Upston b Thomson | 1 | |||||
| LB Hill | b Upston | 22 | |||||
| RA Oxworth | c Monks b Upston | 11 | |||||
| MH Reeve | b Upston | 16 | |||||
| L Germaine | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 31 overs) | 116 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20, 2-53, 3-53, 4-56, 5-56, 6-60, 7-68, 8-93, 9-116, 10-116 (31 ov) | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 15 | 2 | 51 | 4 | - | ||
| Upston | 15 | 2 | 54 | 6 | - | ||
| Peters | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | ||
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Ogle | b Hill | 3 | |||||
| I Monks | c Germaine b Quick | 13 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Trueman b Reeve | 19 | |||||
| FG Leslie | c Matthews b Reeve | 1 | |||||
| DH Foster | b Reeve | 4 | |||||
| NL Allanson | c Quick b Hill | 7 | |||||
| JA Peters | c Trueman b Reeve | 4 | |||||
| GHE Upston | c Oxworth b Quick | 17 | |||||
| GS Whitford | c Reeve b Quick | 7 | |||||
| JA Ross | not out | 3 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | c Goodall b Quick | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (9 b) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 31.7 overs) | 87 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10, 2-28, 3-31, 4-35, 5-42, 6-52, 7-62, 8-78, 9-87, 10-87 (31.7 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hill | 9 | 1 | 29 | 2 | - | - | |
| Reeve | 13 | 5 | 29 | 4 | - | - | |
| Quick | 9.7 | 2 | 20 | 4 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BF Vawser | b Upston | 16 | |||||
| JM Goodall | b Thomson | 7 | |||||
| SE Matthews | c Thomson b Whitford | 9 | |||||
| *J Hallebone | st Nunn b Ross | 12 | |||||
| K Watson | b Whitford | 2 | |||||
| IW Quick | b Ross | 9 | |||||
| +GS Trueman | c Nunn b Whitford | 1 | |||||
| LB Hill | st Nunn b Ross | 1 | |||||
| RA Oxworth | not out | 3 | |||||
| MH Reeve | not out | 0 | |||||
| L Germaine | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 14 overs) | 65 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24, 2-28, 3-38, 4-49, 5-53, 6-55, 7-56, 8-65 | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | ||
| Upston | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | - | ||
| Peters | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | ||
| Ross | 4 | 0 | 10 | 3 | - | ||
| Whitford | 3 | 0 | 23 | 3 | - | ||
| Essendon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| I Monks | b Reeve | 9 | |||||
| NL Allanson | c Quick b Hill | 10 | |||||
| GHE Upston | run out | 5 | |||||
| *+HA Nunn | c Matthews b Reeve | 1 | |||||
| FG Leslie | run out | 3 | |||||
| B Ogle | st Trueman b Quick | 1 | |||||
| DH Foster | c Hallebone b Quick | 8 | |||||
| EAN Thomson | b Quick | 4 | |||||
| JA Peters | c Hallebone b Reeve | 29 | |||||
| JA Ross | run out | 15 | |||||
| GS Whitford | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 4 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 14.7 overs) | 89 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11, 2-21, 3-27, 4-28, 5-31, 6-34, 7-38, 8-47, 9-88, 10-89 (14.7 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hill | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Reeve | 3.7 | 0 | 11 | 3 | - | - | |
| Germaine | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Quick | 4 | 0 | 25 | 3 | - | - | |
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