Boxing Day Test to stay in Melbourne

SYDNEY: The celebrated Boxing Day Test will remain in Melbourne, Cricket Australia said Friday, after a report that administrators could reshuffle fixtures.
The Australian newspaper had suggested that big matches could be moved around based on competitive bidding between states. But CA’s executive general manager of operations Mike McKenna said the idea that the December 26 Test would move from the MCG was “absolutely not correct”.
“We’ve got no plans whatsoever to move cricket and the Boxing Day Test from Melbourne,” McKenna told Melbourne radio station 3AW.
“Like any good commercial business, we’ve got to look at funding of cricket and if someone came to us with a massive offer we’d have to listen but our primary loyalty to the Boxing Day Test is to the MCG.”
McKenna said there had been no discussions with other states about taking the Boxing Day Test away from Victoria state, of which Melbourne is the capital.
“Our conversations have been about the existing content each state already has,” he said.
McKenna said that CA was trying to encourage state governments to spend money, now spent on marketing states via other sporting events, on cricket.