The Boxing Day Test is a national sporting treasure - and the crowd record could be broken on day one of this year's hotly anticipated clash with India (pictured, the MCG during the Boxing Day Test in 2017).
Aussies lose their minds over the MCG's 'woke' Christmas message: 'You're just saying that to provoke people' The MCG's humorous Christmas Day message has left some cricket fans outraged after they failed to see the funny side of the famous ground's jokey way of marking December 25.
On Wednesday, the MCG's official account on X posted 'Happy Boxing Day Eve to all who celebrate' in what most commenters correctly saw as a gag referring to arguably the most anticipated day on the Australian cricketing calendar, the start of the Boxing Day Test.
The MCG's humorous Christmas Day message went over a treat with many cricket fans - but some were left outraged after mistakenly thinking it was political correctness gone mad.
Nobody says Happy New Years Eve, or Happy Birthday Eve, or Happy Easter Eve.
