Boxing Day Test

Boxing Day Test

The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match hosted in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia involving Australian cricket team and the opposition national team touring Australia that summer. It begins annually on Boxing Day (December 26), and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

History

In 1950 the first ever Australian Boxing Day Test was hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. No Boxing Day Tests were played in Melbourne between 1953 and 1967, and periodically the Australian Cricket Team played on Boxing Day in other nations. However in 1980 the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Australian cricket team secured the rights to play the match annually.

List of Boxing Day Test matches

{| class="wikitable"
-!Year!Opposition team !Result
-
1950
cr|England
Australia win by 28 runs
-
1952
cr|South Africa
South Africa win
-
1968
cr|West Indies
Australia win
-
1974
cr|England
Draw
-
1975
cr|West Indies
Australia won by 8 wickets
-
1980
cr|New Zealand
Draw
-
1981
cr|West Indies
Australia win by 58 runs
-
1982
cr|England
England win by 3 runs
-
1983
cr|Pakistan
Draw
-
1984ref|1984
cr|West Indies
Draw
-
1985
cr|India
India win
-
1986
cr|England
England win
-
1987
cr|New Zealand
Draw
-
1988
cr|West Indies
West Indies win by 258 runs
-

-
1990
cr|England
England win by 9 wickets
-
1991
cr|India
Australia win
-
1992
cr|West Indies
Australia win
-
1993
cr|South Africa
Draw
-
1994
cr|England
Australia win by 295 runs
-
1995
cr|Sri Lanka
Australia win by 10 wickets
-
1996
cr|West Indies
West Indies win
-
1997
cr|South Africa
Draw
-
1998
cr|England
England win by 12 runs
-
1999
cr|India
Australia win by 180 runs
-
2000
cr|West Indies
Australia won by 352 runs
-
2001
cr|South Africa
Australia won by 9 wickets
-
2002
cr|England
Australia won by 5 wickets
-
2003
cr|India
Australia won by 9 wickets
-
2004
cr|Pakistan
Australia won by 9 wickets
-
2005
cr|South Africa
Australia won by 184 runs
-
2006
cr|England
by an innings and 99 runs
-
2007
cr|India
Australia won by 337 runs
- In 1984, Boxing Day was the fourth day of the test match.

External links

* [http://www.mcg.org.au/History/Cricket/Boxing%20Day%20Test.aspx History of MCG Boxing Day Tests]

Other Boxing Day Tests

In New Zealand an annual Boxing Day Test Match was played at Basin Reserve in Wellington, involving the New Zealand cricket team as one of the competing sides. Over the past few years the Boxing day Test has been phased out for a One Day International and Twenty20 matches involving New Zealand and the touring opposition national team.

In South Africa a Boxing Day Test is often played if another national team is touring to play the South African cricket team.


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