Melbourne Cricket Ground

Sports stadium in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

6 dated entries naming Melbourne Cricket Ground, drawn from 6 separate years between 1853 CE and 2004 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

1853Melbourne Cricket Ground, the largest sports stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, officially opens.source

20th century

1923February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victoria cricket team an innings total of 1,059.source
1927December 17 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 437 runs to break his own world record for the highest first-class cricket score at Melbourne Cricket Ground.source
1971January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.source
1977March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.source

21st century

2004September 4 – In the AFL finals, Essendon defeated Melbourne by five points (15.14.104 - 15.9.99) in the elimination final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The victory would prove to be Essendon's most recent finals win, beginning a finals drought that would extend for more than two decades.source