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.

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.

The MCG is known for its great atmosphere, much of which is generated in the infamous Bay 13.

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.

The MCG was the home of Australia ’ s first full colour video scoreboard, which replaced the old scoreboard in 1982, located on Level 4 of the Ponsford Stand, with a second video screen added in 1994 almost directly opposite, located on Level 4 of the Olympic stand ..

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.

Their first game was at the MCG on New Year ’ s Day 1862, against a Victorian XVIII.

Not only was the first Test match played at the MCG, the first One Day International match was also played there, on 5 January 1971, between Australia and England.

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.

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

John Cain sits on the board of the MCG Trust.

A world record crowd of 63, 993 at the MCG saw Bradman come to the crease on the first day of the Second Test with the score at 2 / 67.

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.

However, on the eve of the Round 14 clash against West Coast, influential president Jim Stynes announced that he had cancer, this evoked a very emotional response from the footballing public and the club lifted from three embarrassing defeats the weeks before to convincingly beat West Coast in front of a passionate MCG crowd.

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In North Melbourne's Round 14 clash against at the MCG, Blight was on the end of a chain of handpasses deep in the forward zone.

He then made his first Test century on Australian soil, scoring 105 in the First Test against South Africa at the MCG.

After scoring 71 and 53 in the drawn First Test in Perth, Ponting scored 117 on Boxing Day in the Second Test at the MCG.

The proposal would see KGMB moved from its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard in downtown Honolulu to the KHNL / KFVE facilities on Waiakamilo Road ; it would also see KGMB fall under Raycom ownership, moving from channel 9 to channel 5, while KFVE would move from channels 5 to 9 and fall under MCG Capital's ownership.

The station shares studio space with KHNL and KFVE ( now owned by MCG Capital ) on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu.

Emmis then announced on February 20, 2007 that KGMB and its satellites had been sold to MCG Capital Corporation for $ 40 million.

On August 18, 2009, MCG Capital Corporation and Raycom Media ( owner of KHNL and, at the time, KFVE ) announced a shared services agreement which would see Raycom merge the three stations ' operations into the KHNL / KFVE studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu ( KGMB would vacate its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard ).

The last match of the tour was against a Victorian XXII at the MCG after which the English team planted an elm tree outside the ground.

Victorian Bushrangers ' home ground, the MCG.

The Victorian Cricket Association was founded in 1895 and is now located in Melbourne across from the MCG.

At the MCG he took 4 / 24 to spin out the Victorian tail and hit 158 a the run chase that the tourists lost by 32 runs.