Yesterday I took you to the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground, the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the eleventh-largest stadium globally. We watched our football team, the Geelong Cats, lose by one point to the Hawthorn Hawks. A big crowd of 85,000 people watched a very exciting match.
The MCG served as the main stadium for the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, as well as hosting two Cricket World Cup finals: 1992 and 2015. Noted for its role in the development of international cricket, the MCG hosted both the first Test match and the first One Day International, played between Australia and England in 1877 and 1971 respectively. 🏈