{"id":204471,"date":"2025-12-26T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:16:08","slug":"mcg-sets-new-all-time-cricket-attendance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204471\/","title":{"rendered":"MCG sets new all-time cricket attendance record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record-breaking 93,442 fans have filled the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Day 1 of the NRMA Insurance Boxing Day Ashes Test between Australia and England, marking the highest crowd ever recorded for a cricket match at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>The historic crowd surpasses the previous record of 93,013, set during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and New Zealand. It also establishes a new record for the highest attended single day of Test cricket, eclipsing the 91,112 spectators who attended the MCG for Day 1 of the 2013 Boxing Day Test between Australia and England.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s record-breaking Day One, combined with sold-out Days 2 and 3, puts the Ashes cumulative attendance record of 271,865 (also set in 2013) within reach.<\/p>\n<p>Australia currently leads the Ashes 3\u20130, with one Test (Sydney) remaining after the Boxing Day Test.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record-breaking 93,442 fans have filled the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Day 1 of the NRMA Insurance Boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-204471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}