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Cricket is a
famous sport in Australia. In the Yarra Park is located the
Melbourne Cricket Ground also known as MCG. You can easily
access to the Melbourne Cricket Ground by the Jolimont and
Richmond train stations. The MCG is an open stadium, it is well
known for the Summer Olympics in 1956 and also for the
Commonwealth Games in 2006. Every year is held in the stadium
the Boxing Day test match which starts on the Boxing Day. Most
of the time in winter the stadium is used for Australian rules
football with a minimum of one game every week. The Melbourne
Cricket Ground can receive up to one hundred thousand people. On
the picture you can see a team playing cricket. Cricket is
usually a game between two teams of eleven players each. The
cricket game consists of the players, a ball and bat. The
cricket game consists of forty two laws. These laws have been
decided by the Marylebone Cricket Club in accordance to the main
cricketing nations. In fact to win the game one team must score
more runs than the other team. Usually the playing field of
cricket is an oval or circular shaped grassy ground. Traces of
the cricket game have been found during the thirteenth century.
It seems that the game originally started in the Weald, which
was formerly known as a dense forest, situated between Kent and
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