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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Jack Snape

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

A record crowd for a Test in Australia has watched fourth Test against India, with 350,000 fans attending.
A record crowd for a Test in Australia has watched fourth Test against India, with 350,000 fans attending. Photograph: Martin Keep/AFP/Getty Images

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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