Melbourne Cricket Ground: cricket results and records

Melbourne Cricket Ground appears in 175 recorded matches, the first on 26 December 2002 and the latest on 13 January 2026. The matches are 87 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 40 in One Day Internationals, 25 in Twenty20 Internationals and 23 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Big Bash League (75 matches), Women's Big Bash League (12 matches) and Commonwealth Bank Series (8 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Australia (81 matches), Melbourne Stars (78 matches), England (24 matches) and India (24 matches).

Of the 175 matches, 170 produced a winner, 2 were drawn, 1 were tied and 2 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 624/8 by Australia against Pakistan on 26 December 2016.

The lowest completed total is 68 by Adelaide Strikers against Melbourne Stars on 15 January 2021.

In the 149 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 61 (40.9%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are SPD Smith (1,834 runs in 39 innings), GJ Maxwell (1,730 runs in 60 innings), DA Warner (1,687 runs in 39 innings), MP Stoinis (1,434 runs in 54 innings) and RT Ponting (1,342 runs in 33 innings).

The leading wicket takers are A Zampa (58 wickets), MA Starc (57 wickets), NM Lyon (56 wickets), MG Johnson (55 wickets) and PJ Cummins (55 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 250 by JL Langer against England on 26 December 2002, 244* by AN Cook against Australia on 26 December 2017 and 205* by Azhar Ali against Australia on 26 December 2016.

The best bowling figures are 6 for 7 by SM Boland against England on 26 December 2021, 6 for 27 by PJ Cummins against India on 26 December 2018 and 6 for 33 by JJ Bumrah against Australia on 26 December 2018.

The first innings of 23 Test matches matches here averaged 327.9 runs.

In 39 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 257.1 and the side batting second 222.3.

In 24 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 143.7 and the side batting second 126.8.

In 87 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 152.7 and the side batting second 138.8.

The toss is recorded in 175 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 97 (55.4%) and to bat in 78.

Among the 170 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 91 times (53.5%).

Batters at the ground hit 6,284 fours and 1,084 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 12.4 balls; 45.0% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 62%, bowled 16%, lbw 8%, run out 7% and stumped 3% of the 2,686 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 67%, bowled 18%, lbw 9%, stumped 3% and caught and bowled 3% of the 2,495 times.

That is 42.1 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (22), 2010s (90) and 2020s (63).

The competitions that have used the ground are Big Bash League (75 matches), Women's Big Bash League (12 matches), Commonwealth Bank Series (8 matches), India tour of Australia (7 matches), VB Series (6 matches), ICC Cricket World Cup (5 matches), The Ashes (4 matches) and Women's Ashes (4 matches).