Melbourne Cricket Ground Boxing Day Test 1998.

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

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve ( Windy Hill ) in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Australia but match day home games are played at Etihad Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its home matches at Flemington Hill, but moved to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1881.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Known as the " Dreadnoughts ", the team continued to play at the Essendon Cricket Ground until the expansion of the Jolimont Railway Yards into the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1922 meant that the " Same Olds " were looking for a new home.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

Statue of Essendon's greatest, Dick Reynolds at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

However the club also hosts home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium ( currently also known by its sponsorship name as " Etihad Stadium ").

Only months before announcing his presence on the international scene, Botham played Grade cricket for the University of Melbourne Cricket Club during the 1976 / 77 Australian Domestic Season.

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

Traditionally, Melbourne hosts the Boxing Day Test and Sydney hosts the New Year Test.

* 2000 – Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.

The present building now hosts major international productions as well as live performance events such as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

In 2000, the centre court at Melbourne Park, which today hosts the Australian Open, was named the Rod Laver Arena in his honour.

The Victoria Racing Club hosts four race meetings at Flemington during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

The VRC also hosts race meetings during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival.

Flemington Racecourse today hosts many of Australia's top races, including the Melbourne Cup, VRC Derby, VRC Oaks, MacKinnon Stakes, Newmarket Handicap, Australian Cup and Lightning Stakes.

It also hosts the Melbourne to Hobart and Melbourne to Launceston Yacht Races.

In 2003, Melbourne was named as a UNESCO City of Literature and the city hosts the majority of Australia's contemporary festivals, events and institutions, new galleries, music venues, museums, of all shapes and sizes are opening across the city.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts an ODI match between Australia and India.

Today, the building hosts various exhibitions and other events and is closely tied with events at the Melbourne Museum.

The community centre also hosts the Jesus Is Lord Church of Melbourne.

SA hosts an annual public conference called Marxism each Easter weekend in Melbourne, supported by 3CR.

Also in Melbourne after Steppin 2 da A. M ended was a show called The Formula with hosts Stewbakka, Bias B and DJ FX that run for many years, when ' The formula ' show ended the Hosts started a show at 3RRR Triple R called ' Werdburner ' with Hosts Stewbakka and Bias B.

Ferguson currently hosts and co-produces WTF-With Tim Ferguson on C31 Melbourne.

It is the centrepiece of Melbourne Park's Tennis Centre, and besides tennis, the arena hosts motorbike super-crosses, music concerts, conferences, World Wrestling Entertainment events ( since 2005 ), and ballets.

The show had a number of members from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra behind the hosts, who performed the shows many musical questions including the theme song " Spicks and Specks " by The Bee Gees.

Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km north-west of Melbourne, it is the business and services centre of the northern Wimmera and southern Mallee districts, and hosts local government offices of the Shire of Yarriambiack.

It also hosts the exams for University of Melbourne in recent years.

In 1987, Vizard performed in the first Melbourne International Comedy Festival, launched by Peter Cook ; and was one of the hosts of the Comedy Festival Gala in 1991.

Moonee Valley Racecourse is a horse-racing track in Melbourne, Australia which hosts races for Thoroughbreds.

One of the most sensational incidents in Test cricket occurred at the MCG during the Melbourne test of the 1954 – 55 England tour of Australia.

One view is that the club was connected to the St Mary ’ s Church of England Cricket Club, now the St Mary's Anglican Church North Melbourne, whose colours – blue and white – are reflected in the Club's colour's today.

* One World: The Ethics of Globalisation, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002 ; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002 ; 2nd edition, pb, Yale University Press, 2004 ; Oxford Longman, Hyderabad, 2004.

* 1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.

One of the most successful was The Hobbit, an award-winning computer game published in 1982 by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House with compatibility for most computers available at the time.

* January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded.

The expedition consisted of 402 people: 5 Government officials, 9 officers of marines, 2 drummers, and 39 privates, 5 soldiers ' wives, and a child, 307 convicts, 17 convicts ' wives, and 7 children One of the children was the eleven year old John Pascoe Fawkner, later a founder of Melbourne, who accompanied his convicted father and mother.

One of the oldest doll hospitals was established in Lisbon, Portugal in 1830, and another in Melbourne, reputedly the first such establishment in Australia, was founded in 1888.

* 5 January, Melbourne – first-ever One Day International is played after a Test match is abandoned because of rain, Australia beating England by 5 wickets.

One of Chelmsford's two joint-tallest buildings, Melbourne Court ( now renamed Parkside Court ) in Melbourne Avenue, has received an £ 8, 000, 000 investment for extensive refurbishment and to create a new Neighbourhood Centre.

One Arctic Tern, ringed ( banded ) as a chick on the Farne Islands off the British east coast, reached Melbourne, Australia in just three months from fledging, a sea journey of over.

One Arctic Tern, ringed as a chick ( not yet able to fly ) on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast in eastern Great Britain in summer 1982, reached Melbourne, Australia in October 1982, a sea journey of over 22, 000 km ( 14, 000 statute miles ) in just three months from fledging — an average of over 240 km per day, and one of the longest journeys ever recorded for a bird.

One complete black and white episode is available to be viewed at the Australian Mediatheque at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, while several colour episodes are known to exist in the hands of private collectors.

One Florida fronton was converted from jai alai to greyhound racing in Melbourne.

One example of this bird's remarkable long-distance flying abilities involves an Arctic Tern ringed as an unfledged chick on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK, in the northern summer of 1982, which reached Melbourne, Australia, in October 1982, a sea journey of over in just three months from fledging.

One award in particular was the RACV Award for major tourist attraction, where it received 1, 428, 238 visitors during the years of 2010-11, which the Melbourne Museum received top honours for.

Alan Stanley Jones MBE ( born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria ) is an Australian former Formula One driver.

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Although racing in Australia is held every day except Good Friday and Christmas Day, the Group One races in Melbourne are held almost exclusively throughout the carnival, which is traditionally placed between the football and cricket seasons.

There is also a Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival, a time where Group One races are also held.

It became part of the Formula One World Championship in 1985 and was held at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide, South Australia from that year to 1995, before moving to Melbourne in 1996.

One wagon broke down before it had even left Royal Park and by midnight of the first day the expedition had only reached Essendon on the edge of Melbourne.

One day later an article was reported on SBS's The World Game website that Harry Kewell's manager, Bernie Mandic, had explained why an innovative proposal to bring the Socceroos star to the A-League failed at the final hurdle and that Mandic claimed that Football Federation Australia's head of corporate affairs and communications, Kyle Patterson, had made Kewell look like a greedy villain by misrepresenting the facts On 7 July, The Australian stated that there had been claims that Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC had signed him.