Pakistan boxing day test

NRMA Insurance Boxing Day Test: Cricket Australia (CA) announced on Saturday that the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan had a total attendance of 164,835 over the four days at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Apart from the attendance numbers, CA also said it recorded strong viewership numbers across the four days of play as Australia claimed a 79-run win over Pakistan to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match Test series being played for the Benaud-Qadir Trophy.

Free-to-air Seven Network’s coverage of the Boxing Day Test reached 5.5 million Australians nationally and taking into account audiences across the Foxtel Group including Kayo Sports, Foxtel Go and Foxtel Now, over one million people on average watched across each day’s play.