In the Fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, England batting second scored 513 to defeat Australia ( 98 & 258 ) by an innings and 157 runs.

The Wisden 100 rates Lara's 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown in 1998 – 99 as the second best innings ever after Sir Donald Bradman's 270 against England in Melbourne in 1936 – 37.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

After a 17 point second semi final loss to South Melbourne defeated Fitzroy ( who had beaten South Melbourne ) in the challenge final: Essendon 8. 15 ( 63 ) to Fitzroy 6. 10 ( 46 ).

As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the ' ones that got away ' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7. 27 ( of which full forward Bill Brittingham contributed 2. 12 ) to tie with Melbourne ( who managed 10. 9 ) in the 1948 grand final.

A year later Essendon were if anything even more dominant, defeating the North Melbourne Football Club in both the second semi final and the grand final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time.

The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers ( as they were popularly known by this time ) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16 point second semi final defeat of Melbourne, only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later.

* 1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city.

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

Geelong travelled to Melbourne to become the second winner of the Caledonian Challenge Cup in 1863, played under compromise rules.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

He scored 71 in a rain-affected first test at Melbourne before a tense second test that South Africa won by 5 runs.

Before the second Test in Melbourne, Woodfull had to wait until minutes before the game before he was confirmed as captain by the selectors.

During the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day 1995, Australian umpire Darrell Hair called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing in front of a crowd of 55, 239.

Among the other bands constituting Australia's second wave were Johnny Dole & The Scabs, the Hellcats, and Psychosurgeons ( later known as the Lipstick Killers ) in Sydney ; The Leftovers, The Survivors, and Razar in Brisbane ; and La Femme, The Negatives, and The Babeez ( later known as The News ) in Melbourne.

The second company to make single hose scuba was also in Melbourne.

* In the 6 June 2007, second season, eleventh episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the possibility of Tinky Winky being homosexual was parodied when the Chaser's tested the Peel Hotel ( in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia )' s gaydar ( the hotel's Peel dancebar was given the right to ban heterosexual patrons ) with a Tinky Winky costumed figure that acted in a stereotypical homosexual fashion.

Trams are the second most used form of public transport in overall boardings in Melbourne after the commuter railway network, with a total of 182. 7 million passenger trips — a 4. 1 % year-on-year patronage growth — in the 2010 – 2011 year.

‘ Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 27 Dec 2009.

When the time came for Barassi to be signed up, Melbourne picked him up from Preston Scouts in 1952 and he became only the second player signed under the new rule.

In 1974, Barassi's second year of coaching, North Melbourne were to come runner up in the grand final.

The Kangaroos went on to win another premiership in 1977, but it very nearly wasn ’ t, as North Melbourne gave up a late lead against Collingwood in the second ever drawn VFL grand final.

In that year Melbourne won its second flag.

At the end of the season, Melbourne finished 16th on the ladder and for a second year in a row won no more than four games which granted them a Priority Pick in the National Draft.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The team achieved good results and in 1960 the club presented a team that won the third division of the Buenos Aires league, reaching the second division.

The second Eta chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1958.

The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

He opened a second club, the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas.

While the Rockies struggled to a 68 – 94 record — the second worst record in club history — the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, went 78 – 65.

On May 24, Kazuo Matsui, former Rockies second baseman during the 2007 championship season, was resigned to the club following his unconditional release from the Houston Astros.

The club won promotion to the First Division in their second season, and yo-yoed between the First and Second Divisions in their early years.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

They were the second club from London to turn professional, following Arsenal F. C.

Promotion to the top tier of English football saw the club perform poorly, finishing seventeenth in their first year and eighteenth in their second.

After the 1993 season, Donald A. Smiley was named the second President in club history.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

Geelong moved to Corio Oval for the 1878 season – the year the club won its first VFA premiership in only the second VFA season.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

Cesar Cedeno led the club with 81 RBIs and the league with 40 doubles, but batted just. 264 and had 102 strikeouts in his second season with the Astros.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

In his second season Dalglish recorded a personal best of 21 league goals for the club, and he was also named Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year.

In 1976, Paisley's second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double.

Manchester United won the First Division for the second time in 1911, but at the end of the following season, Mangnall left the club to join Manchester City.