MCG Shatters 87-Year Test Match Attendance Record in India-Australia Match
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) has entered into the cricket history once more for breaking at least 87-year record in the field by providing highest ever Test match attendances in Australia. Besides it, more than 350,000 spectators are attending the current ongoing Boxing Day Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia, which is the record breaking in this Melbourne Cricket Ground, though the previous record of this stadium was 350,534 in 1937 Ashes Test.
The first three days of the match witnessed a rush of more than eighty thousand spectators daily; Indians still occupied most of the seats providing nearly home conditions to their team. The game will always remain in their memories and they saw Nitish Kumar Reddy’s century in this match. Day four attracted 40000 spectators while the opening session on the fifth day attracted over fifty thousand fans.
This great success broke the previous record that has been set in the 1937 Ashes Test, which was played between Sir Donald Bradman and others, and which lasted for six days. The new record shows that Test cricket remains popular and that the MCG is one of cricket’s most famous grounds.
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