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The Ashes: Day 1 of 4th Test sees record crowd at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground officials announced a first-day attendance of 90,831 and the biggest single-day crowd for a cricket Test match.
- Agence France-Presse
- Updated: December 26, 2013 01:37 pm IST
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Melbourne:
The opening day of the fourth Australia-England Ashes Test set a new world record crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday. (Match scorecard)
Ground officials announced a first-day attendance of 90,831 and the biggest single-day crowd for a cricket Test match.
The massive Boxing Day turnout eclipsed the previous record first-day crowd at the MCG of 90,800 set in the 1961 Test between Australia and the West Indies.
Australia have already claimed the Ashes urn off England with an unassailable 3-0 series lead after huge Test victories in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
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