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IANS

Boxing Day Test under threat from climate change: Report

By Saurabh Sharma December 27, 2019 • 11:56 AM View: 962

Melbourne, Dec 2: One of the most famous fixtures in world cricket, the Boxing Day Test played in Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, could soon be under threat from climate change, a new report has suggested.

In decades to come, extreme heat will eventually make the yearly match which sees Australia take on a visiting nation at the MCG a thing of the past, according to Monash University's Climate Change Communication Research Hub.

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