Nowadays Boxing Day is popular in Australia as the first day of a Test cricket match held at the MCG.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club.

The MCG is within walking distance of the city centre and is serviced by the Richmond railway station, Richmond and the Jolimont railway station, East Melbourne.

Internationally, the MCG is remembered as the centrepiece stadium of both the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

The MCG is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and was included on the Australian National Heritage List on 26 December 2005.

A pavilion at the MCG is on the left in the background.

That ground was located where the Richmond, or outer, end of the current MCG is now.

Donald Bradman's record at the MCG is an average of 128 runs in 17 innings.

Border's effort in Australia's loss in the Fourth Test at the MCG is one of his best remembered Test innings.

The Tigers play home games at the MCG, which is just outside the suburbs border, and regularly attract crowds in excess of 40, 000, however, can draw as large as 80, 000 against fierce rivals.

Curb Records ( also known as Asylum-Curb and formerly known as MCG Curb ) is an independent record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963.

A highlight was the 1994 Mark of the Year over Collingwood's Gary Pert on Mothers ' Day at the MCG, a mark which is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

In the low-dimensional topology literature, the mapping class group of X is usually denoted MCG ( X ), although it is also frequently denoted π < sub > 0 </ sub >( Aut ( X )) where one substitutes for Aut the appropriate group for the category X is an object of.

Wills is honoured with a sculpture at the MCG by Louis Laumen erected in 2002.

KHNL is owned and operated by Raycom Media, who also owns CBS affiliate KGMB and operates MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE by virtue of a shared services agreement with KFVE's owner MCG Capital Corporation.

The station is owned and operated by Raycom Media, who gained ownership of KGMB through a complex ( and controversial ) shared services agreement with KGMB's former owner, MCG Capital Corporation, an arrangement that saw KGMB leave its longtime on-air home from PSIP channel 9 to channel 5 in October 2009.

The station is owned by MCG Capital Corporation, which gained ownership through a shared services agreement with Raycom Media, the owner / operator of NBC affiliate KHNL and CBS affiliate KGMB, in which KFVE moved from PSIP channel 5 to channel 9 ( KGMB's former on-air home ).

M85 is interacting with the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4394, and a small elliptical galaxy called MCG 3-32-38.

The team's home ground is the MCG, subject to availability and second home ground is the Junction Oval.

Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Richmond Cricket Ground ( better known as the Punt Road Oval ), just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).

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The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

This condition remained until 1933 when the State Government allowed the MCG ’ s uses to be broadened to include other purposes when not being used for cricket.

In subsequent years conditions at the MCG improved but the ever-ambitious Melburnians were always on the lookout for more than the usual diet of club and inter-colonial games.

They quibbled with the Melbourne Cricket Club about paying £ 175 for damages to the MCG despite a prior arrangement to do so.

The match was the idea of former Australian bowler and MCC committee member Hans Ebeling who had been responsible for developing the cricket museum at the MCG.

His chances of hitting his first ball for six on the vast MCG were apparently nil and even if he did manage to get it over the fence New Zealand would not win but only draw the game.

During the 1995 Boxing Day Test at the MCG, Australian umpire Darrell Hair called Sri Lankan spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing the ball, rather than bowling it, seven times during the match.

In 2010, the two sides emerged as the favourites for the flag and twice met in front of blockbuster crowds at the MCG when they were placed 1st and 2nd on the ladder — with the results evenly split.

The next week they faced Sydney at the MCG, for the first time since 2006.

In December 2004 NTL sold its broadcast-unit to a consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group ( MCG ) for £ 1. 27 billion.

Melbourne's premier sporting ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), was redeveloped in preparation for the Games.

The team's second ever win in a finals match qualified them for a semifinal to be played against the Geelong Cats at the MCG the following week.

With a contribution of 11 runs in the first innings of the MCG 2005 Boxing Day Test versus South Africa, he stood his ground for 53 deliveries, helping Michael Hussey push the Australian tail to a record tenth wicket stand against South Africa of 107 runs.

After Australia lost the first two Tests in the Ashes series, Border was selected for his Test debut at the MCG.

Recalled for the First Test against Pakistan at the MCG, Border batted at No. 3 and hit his maiden Test century as Australia reached 3 / 305, chasing 382 for victory.

He broke through for his maiden ODI century in his 12th match, scoring 123 from 138 balls against Sri Lanka at the MCG.

A controversial incident occurred in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup at the MCG in 1981 when Australian bowler Trevor Chappell, under orders from his captain and brother Greg Chappell, rolled the final ball along the ground to avoid the possibility of it being hit for the six runs that New Zealand needed to tie the match.

A few weeks later, Hughes was called up as twelfth man for Australia in the New Year's Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).

In 1989, a crowd of 91, 960 people — a record for interstate games in Australian rules — attended a game between Victoria and South Australia at the MCG.

With a viable alternative venue for the Grand Final and other events the AFL possessed a critical bargaining chip in negotiations with the Melbourne Cricket Club over MCG access.

When Jo was unavailable for the 2006 / 07 Commonwealth Banks Series finals in Australia, Michael Robinson replaced her for the 1st final at the MCG.