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Bigger than Bradman: bumper Boxing Day Test breaks record for cricket crowd in Australia

  • A record 373,691 people attend Boxing Day Test at MCG
  • Attendance beats 1937 record in which Bradman scored 270
  • Boxing Day Test: live updates as Australia defeat India

Not even the great Don Bradman drew such a crowd. At the MCG on Monday, 74,362 walked through the turnstiles, taking the total attendance of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and India to 373,691.

The five-day attendance is now the largest for any Test in Australia. It eclipsed the 350,534 which watched the six-day Test between Australia and England at the MCG in 1937, where Bradman scored 270 in one of the performances of his career.

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Source: Cricket - The Guardian

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