Melbourne Cricket Ground saw its first game played during the 1855-56 season, Victoria faced off against New South Wales.
Prior to this first game at the ground, Victoria played just a single home first-class game, at Emerald Hill, Melbourne - the ground's only first-class match.
For a long time The Kennington Oval held the record for the largest playing area of any Test venue in the world, but that record has since been surpassed by the Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan, which since 1996 has a capacity crowd of 40,228.
The MCG was built in 1853 The Melbourne Cricket Ground was built in 1853 and the current location near the Yarra River was chosen because it was the right ground to host cricket matches. Since then the MCG has hosted the 1956 Olympics, 2006 Commonwealth Games, yearly Boxing Day tests and VFL/AFL Grand Finals and also historic concerts and events like Sound Relief and Pope John Paul II's visit in 1986.
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It was built in 1893 by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala
Melbourne is situated on Port Phillip Bay.
Most of inner Melbourne is Made of BLUESTONE you losers :)
Yes it was built a long time ago
CD players were built in 1980's
To allow the demand of goods to melbourne and to transport people to Australia for the gold rush
It was build in3344444555 years ago
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for the rugby and the cricket