Boxing Day Test

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The second day of the 2006 Boxing Day test match

The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match hosted in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia involving the Australian cricket team and the opposition national team touring Australia that summer. It begins annually on Boxing Day (26 December), and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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[edit] History

Cricket crowd at the Boxing Day test in 2007

In 1950 the first ever Australian Boxing Day Test was hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. No Boxing Day Tests were played in Melbourne between 1953 and 1967, and periodically the Australian Cricket Team played on Boxing Day in other nations. However in 1980 the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Australian cricket team secured the rights to play the match annually.

[edit] Boxing Day One Day International

In 1989, a One Day International was played instead of a Test match, involving Australia and Sri Lanka, which Australia won by 30 runs.[1]

[edit] List of Boxing Day Test matches

Year Opposition team Result
1950[2]  England Australia won by 28 runs
1952[3]  South Africa South Africa won by 82 runs
1968  West Indies Australia won by an innings and 99 runs
1974  England Draw
1975  West Indies Australia won by 8 wickets
1980  New Zealand Draw
1981  West Indies Australia won by 58 runs
1982  England England won by 3 runs
1983  Pakistan Draw
1984[4]  West Indies Draw
1985  India Draw
1986  England England won by an innings and 14 runs
1987  New Zealand Draw
1988[3]  West Indies West Indies won by 258 runs
1990  England Australia won by 9 wickets
1991  India Australia won by 8 wickets
1992  West Indies Australia won by 139 runs
1993  South Africa Draw
1994[3]  England Australia won by 295 runs
1995  Sri Lanka Australia won by 10 wickets
1996  West Indies West Indies won by 6 wickets
1997  South Africa Draw
1998  England England won by 12 runs
1999  India Australia won by 180 runs
2000  West Indies Australia won by 352 runs
2001  South Africa Australia won by 9 wickets
2002  England Australia won by 5 wickets
2003  India Australia won by 9 wickets
2004  Pakistan Australia won by 9 wickets
2005  South Africa Australia won by 184 runs
2006  England Australia won by an innings and 99 runs
2007  India Australia won by 337 runs
2008  South Africa South Africa won by 9 wickets
  1. ^ ODI # 596 Benson & Hedges World Series, 1989/90, 1st Match, Australia v Sri Lanka
  2. ^ Boxing Day was the third day of the test match.
  3. ^ a b c Boxing Day was the second day of the test match.
  4. ^ Boxing Day was the fourth day of the test match.

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[edit] Other Boxing Day Tests

In New Zealand an annual Boxing Day Test Match was played at Basin Reserve in Wellington, involving the New Zealand cricket team as one of the competing sides. Over the past few years the Boxing day Test has been phased out for a One Day International and Twenty20 matches involving New Zealand and the touring opposition national team.

In South Africa a Boxing Day Test is often played if another national team is touring to play the South African cricket team.

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