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MCG curator concedes pitch went ‘too far’ in favouring bowlers amid criticism over short Boxing Day Test

Melbourne Cricket Club CEO Stuart Fox (left) and head curator Matthew Page (right) speak to reporters outside the MCG
Melbourne Cricket Club CEO Stuart Fox (left) and head curator Matthew Page (right) speak to reporters outside the MCG on Sunday morning. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

The MCG’s head curator has conceded staff went “too far” in preparing a pitch that favoured the bowlers too heavily in the Boxing Day Test, saying he was in a “state of shock” while watching the match unfold.

But the stadium’s chief executive is standing by the under-fire curator after the Test match between Australia and England finished within two days.

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