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The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match held in Melbourne, Victoria, ... but no Test matches were played on Boxing Day in Melbourne between 1953 and 1967.
The honours board commemorating Test cricket centuries at the MCG. The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an Australian sports stadium located in Melbourne. It was established in 1854 and has a capacity of approximately 100,000. [1] The MCG was the scene of the first ever Test match, which was played in 1877 between Australia and England. [2]
Australia defeat India by 184 runs in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a match that is described as a "an all-time classic." [262] Pat Cummins is named the player of the match. [262] The 2025 Brisbane International tennis tournament commences, which includes the long awaited return of Nick Kyrgios. [259]
The first such instance occurred on Boxing Day, 2005, when Bay 13 directed racial taunts in Afrikaans at South African fast bowler André Nel. [4] The South African Cricket Board has repeatedly raised concerns over racial taunting of players by Bay 13. Fans were ejected from the 2018 Boxing Day test for taunting Indian players and spectators. [5]
Sehwag gave a commanding and dominant display of batting at the MCG on Boxing Day. The match at Melbourne was crucial for Australia, as they had to pull back the advantage and had to squeeze a win for Steve Waugh, who, incidentally was playing his last match in the ground where he had made his debut nineteen years ago, in 1985, and even more ...
The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosted the final. (Pictured during the 1998 Boxing Day Test.) The final was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Melbourne, Australia, on 18 December 1988. The match was broadcast live on radio and on ABC Television in Australia, [5] and in front of a crowd of 3,326. [6]
This included a crowd of 89,155 fans for day one of the fourth Test, a record for the Ashes and also a record for a Boxing Day match at the ground, just shy of the official all-time mark of 90,800 (set at the MCG when Australia played the West Indies during the 1960–61 season).
The third Test match was the traditional Boxing Day Test played at Melbourne. India got off to a good start, with Virender Sehwag scoring 195, and ended the first day at 4–329. But in the first session on the second day, wickets fell quickly and India were bowled out for 366.