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Boxing Day Test 2024: Australia vs India

When: December 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30
Where: Melbourne Cricket Ground – Victoria, Australia
Who plays in 2024: Australia vs India

The Boxing Day Test is without doubt the number one cricket event on the Australian summer calendar.

Played on the hallowed turf of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, it has become an Aussie tradition that dates back to 1950.

While it was next played in 1952, there was not another MCG Test after Christmas until the West Indies visited in 1968. The next one was a draw with England in 1974, then a win over the Windies in ’75. After that, Boxing Day at the ‘G did not resurface until 1980, when the Australian Cricket Board and the Melbourne Cricket Club sealed a deal to have an annual tilt at the ground.

Boxing Day Test 2024 Australia vs India

A run of nine straight years ended when there was no Test in 1989, with the Aussies playing a Boxing Day One Day International against the Sri Lankans. Since then, there has been a Boxing Day Test every year.

And with the tradition of watching the first day of the Boxing Day Test comes the opportunity to lay a bet or two on your Aussies or, if you’re unpatriotic, the nation that is visiting at the time.

Next up are Pakistan, who will be out to avenge last year’s home series defeat.


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Boxing Day Test records

Highest score Graham Yallop (Australia) – 268 v Pakistan, 1983
Best bowling Graeme McKenzie (Australia) – 8/71 v West Indies, 1968
Most runs in Boxing Day Tests Steve Waugh (Australia) – 1,261
Most wickets in Boxing Day Tests Shane Warne (Australia) – 43

List of Boxing Day Test results

Date Versus Result
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 rain
1994 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
2009 Pakistan Australia won by 170 runs
2010 England England won by an innings and 157 runs
2011 India Australia won by 122 runs
2012 Sri Lanka Australia won by an innings and 201 runs
2013 England Australia won by 8 wickets
2014 India Draw
2015 West Indies Australia won by 177 runs
2016 Pakistan Australia won by an innings and 18 runs
2017 England Draw
2018 India Draw
2019 New Zealand Australia won by 247 runs
2020 India India won by 8 wickets
2021 England Australia won by an innings & 14 runs
2022 South Africa Australia won by an innings & 82 runs
2023 Pakistan Australia won by 79 runs
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