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The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, involving the Australia national cricket team and an opposing national team that is touring Australia during the southern summer.
Team Last Game Wins Losses Defunct Adelaide 36ers: 2018–19 3 0 Brisbane Bullets: 2017–18 0 3 Cairns Taipans: 2019–20 1 0 Canberra Cannons: 1999–00
[2] with Australia and New Zealand they won 5 of their 10-round robin matches. In the best of three final with Australia they lost 2–0. In the best of three final with Australia they lost 2–0. One of cricket's most respected and important figures, Steve Waugh , made his debut on the Boxing Day test at Melbourne in second test of the series.
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The history of South Africa's Boxing Day Test traces back to 1913, with a match against England in Johannesburg. [1] The tradition became more established after South Africa's return to international cricket in the early 1990s, with the 1992 match against India being a notable milestone.
This included a crowd of 89,155 fans for day one of the fourth Test, a record for the Ashes and also a record for a Boxing Day match at the ground, just shy of the official all-time mark of 90,800 (set at the MCG when Australia played the West Indies during the 1960–61 season).
The BBC explains that Boxing Day got its name when Queen Victoria held the throne in the 1800s, and is borne out of the tradition of wealthy families boxing up gifts to give to the poor.