Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

... England and Australia. Again just to tick another thing off the "must do" list. It was played in the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), which can hold 90,000 people. Although Irish, we were supporting England. Not only because they were the underdogs (after ...

... the tour was over, I went for a bite to eat at Hungry Jacks and made my way to the mighty MCG. A guided tour of the famous cricket ground was high up on my things to do list. As I waited for the tour to begin, I wandered through the AFL Hall of Fame. I ...

... first room on Melbourne's lifestyle was pretty effective with a life-size 'Neighbours' set, a natty model of the Melbourne Cricket Ground and a typical school environment built from actual parts of an old college up the road. It was all pretty original ...

... and there are some available for Monday - just depends if we can afford it. After a walk round the courts, we arrived at Melbourne Cricket Ground (The MCG, or just The 'G'). The place is huge. It holds over 70,000 I think. We got to see where we will ...

... in Formula One, the Australian Open tennis grand slam, and the Aussie Rules Grand Final at the 100,000 seater Melbourne Cricket Ground. Fairly new to the sporting landscape is A-League soccer and so I popped off to the rather impressive Telstra Dome ( ...

... the hustle and bustle from the old-fashioned cart, hundreds of Socceroos supporters began to descend towards the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) for the evenings match. We had fancied getting a ticket but the sudden national interest in soccer, spurred on ...

... at the start of Punt Road, which in turn is so called as it is a long road that leads all the way to the Melbourne Cricket Ground... And a Punt is the kick they do in that stupid game they like playing here. As I have lived and/or worked there on and ...

... sunshine. Tuesday 30th January Hired bikes and rode along the banks of the Yarra river that splits Melbourne. Passed the MCG cricket ground and Rod Laver stadium, home of the Australian tennis open. Wednesday 31st January Behind the scenes ...

... team colours written large on their faces: and that's just in the streets of Melbourne as I walk to the MCG (the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but now it has a more popular use as the home of Aussie Rules Football, or AFL). I've gotten myself a ticket to ...

... I decided to have a wander along the Yarra a bit further and went to take a closer look at the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Pretty impressive stadium and hopefully I'll get to see some sporting event in there sometime. If I'm still in Australia ...

... visited the Ian Potter Art Gallery where they have lots of Aboriginal Art, strolled along the Yarra river past the famous MCG cricket ground and explored the funky Fitzroy & Collingwood areas. Jenny & JT also took us away for the weekend to the Grampians ...

... a 6 or a 4!! The stadium was about half full, but that was still 40,000 fans! That would more than fill any UK cricket ground. BUt it fell almost silent as the last runs were hit in the final over! It was an interesting start to the game with Lorna ...

... close to Fed Sq where I got off and wandered over to the Melbourne & Olympic Parks - home to the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), Rod Laver Arena (Australian Open Tennis) and the Vodafone Arena....and some other stuff. Not really much to do other than ...

... we realised he was staying in the same hotel as us !!! Managed to get on a tour of all the sporting venues, such as MCG cricket ground, got to go on to the field & were told we were on there longer than most Pomme batsman !! that really hurt ...

... photos. The park also had a model Tudor village and a Fairy tree! One day, we went on another walk to the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) and the surrounding areas. We were going to take a tour of the MCG but the ground is being refurbished to be ready ...

... ;s still an extremely cheap way of experiencing the jewels in Sydney’s crown. In the early evening I walked to the Sydney Cricket Ground. I was on my own but as always fairly confident of finding some people to chat to at the cricket. The S.C.G. is ...

... no-one staying on the top for more than 5 years or so. I have to mention however, the stadium; The Melbourne Cricket Ground, or MCG.  Obviously nothing compares emotionwise to watching Stoke win at Wembley, (the old one - for now) but ...

... nice apartment in Melbourne? The reason is I’ve got a ticket for Day 4 of the final Ashes test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. This will complete my ‘Ashes’ tour, and will hopefully mean that I will have seen the first and last balls ...

... got snow on Christmas day! The next few days we went to watch the 4th ashes test at the Melbourne Cricket ground, which is the biggest stadium in Australia.  As usual we had to watch England get thrashed, but the bid ground made for a special ...

... games at the MCG whilst we are here - so we decided to go on a tour of the ground instead. It's the biggest cricket ground in the world, with a capactiy of about 100,000 people - more than the new Wembley stadium and the entire population of the Isle of ...