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India tour of Australia: Boxing Day at MCG, where tradition coexists with modernity

Like a protected custom, there are just two spots to be on a Boxing Day in Melbourne – Flinders Street for season-finishing deals or the MCG. The two circles – isolated by shining green stops and twinkling high-risers – accompany an increased feeling of expectation, overwhelming the untidy aftereffect of protracted Christmas night skip. The unbelievable Richie Benaud used to think about how 50% of Melbourne turned up for the Boxing Day Test with no hung-over, gorging follows, in fresh cotton and afterward after his quintessential respite, continue: "What another place would you be on the Boxing Day than at the MCG?"
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He impacted the world forever stable longer and more terrific than it really was – for it was not until 1950 that MCG facilitated its first Boxing Day Test, and it was not until the exciting experience against the West Indies in 1975 that it turned into a custom. In any case, likewise with all ceremonies ever, the fantasy is intangibly laced with the real world, as something that has been around apparently everlastingly, unpreventable as the late spring air, when the sky is cloudless blue, the breeze is gentle and cool, the sun is warm however not yet
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The sounds hit you first – the prattle, thunder, merriments, chat, whistles and when India plays, the throbbing drums that resonate similarly to Flinders Street. The Indianisation of MCG is hard to disregard. On the parklands, there are slows down serving Indian nourishment and music, move and insanity. Before the arena, a group of drummers is hotly serving a clamorous percussion, their music players burping out famous Punjabi chartbusters.

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