IND vs AUS: In Melbourne, not the players but the fans broke the 87 year old record, a new record was made on the 5th day
India vs Australia: Fans break 87 year old record at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
A New Attendance Record For A Test match In Australia: While the Boxing Day Test match between India and Australia being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground has reached a very exciting situation, on the 5th day of the game, not the players but the fans who came to watch the match in the stadium have broken an 87-year-old record. . In this match, host Australia has given the Indian team a target of 340 runs in the fourth innings to win. Fans in Australia eagerly wait to watch the Boxing Day Test match and Indian fans, who are in large numbers in Australia, have also come to watch this match, due to which they came to the stadium to watch the match. The fans have worked together to create a new record.
Record of 1937 broken in India-Australia test match
This time the total number of spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch the Boxing Day Test match, including all five days of play, was more than 350,700. Till now, so many spectators have never come to this ground as have come to watch this match. Earlier in the year 1937, in the match played between Australia and England on this ground, a total of 350,534 spectators had reached across the five days of play. Even in Australia, this is the highest number of fans who have come to watch any test match so far. If we look at the number of fans who came on all five days to watch this match, 87,242 fans came on the first day, 85,147 fans came on the second day, 83,073 on the third day and 43,867 fans came on the fourth day to watch the match. More than 51,371 fans were present in the stadium for this match on the fifth day.
Fans reach MCG for Team India’s match
Whenever the Indian team plays a match on any ground in the world, a large number of fans are seen in the stadium. Something similar has been seen earlier also on the MCG ground, when India played a match against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup here in the year 2022, in which a total of 90,293 fans came to watch the match in the stadium. Apart from this, in the match against Zimbabwe in the same tournament, 82,507 fans had come to the MCG ground to watch the match.
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