| f21006 | |
| Venue | Grace Road, Leicester on 5th, 7th, 8th May 1956 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Leicestershire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | FS Lee, A Skelding |
| Close of play day 1 | Leicestershire (1) 275/7 (Gardner 9*, Walsh 4*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australians (1) 295/4 (Miller 65*, Burge 19*) |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| G Lester | b Archer | 38 | ||||
| MR Hallam | c Burge b Archer | 14 | ||||
| J van Geloven | c Rutherford b Wilson | 43 | ||||
| *CH Palmer | b Archer | 34 | ||||
| VE Jackson | lbw b Archer | 35 | ||||
| GA Smithson | c Burge b Wilson | 60 | ||||
| VS Munden | c Miller b Wilson | 33 | ||||
| LR Gardner | lbw b Johnson | 17 | ||||
| JE Walsh | st Langley b Johnson | 15 | ||||
| +J Firth | not out | 0 | ||||
| CT Spencer | b Crawford | 3 | ||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 1 nb) | 6 | ||||
| Total | (all out, 122.2 overs) | 298 | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-95, 3-103, 4-137, 5-194, 6-255, 7-261, 8-294, 9-295, 10-298 (122.2 ov) | ||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Crawford | 25.2 | 3 | 66 | 1 | - | - |
| Archer | 31 | 10 | 73 | 4 | - | - |
| Johnson | 32 | 11 | 65 | 2 | - | - |
| Rutherford | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - |
| Wilson | 25 | 11 | 59 | 3 | - | - |
| Mackay | 4 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - |
| Australians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| JW Burke | c Palmer b Spencer | 123 | ||||
| JW Rutherford | b van Geloven | 13 | ||||
| KD Mackay | c van Geloven b Munden | 58 | ||||
| RN Harvey | c Firth b Jackson | 11 | ||||
| KR Miller | not out | 281 | ||||
| PJP Burge | c Jackson b Spencer | 99 | ||||
| RG Archer | c Walsh b Hallam | 88 | ||||
| +GRA Langley | not out | 5 | ||||
| *IWG Johnson | did not bat | |||||
| WPA Crawford | did not bat | |||||
| JW Wilson | did not bat | |||||
| Extras | (13 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 16 | ||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 197 overs) | 694 | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-153, 3-175, 4-235, 5-465, 6-669 | ||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Spencer | 34 | 4 | 130 | 2 | - | - |
| van Geloven | 31 | 7 | 101 | 1 | - | - |
| Walsh | 22 | 0 | 89 | 0 | - | - |
| Jackson | 31 | 16 | 60 | 1 | - | - |
| Munden | 38 | 7 | 119 | 1 | - | - |
| Palmer | 15 | 8 | 27 | 0 | - | - |
| Lester | 20 | 0 | 131 | 0 | - | - |
| Hallam | 6 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - |
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