It’s almost like the Grand Final for tests. It can have a great influence on the series outcome. But have recent Boxing Day Tests been all that impressive from an individual perspective? Here is an infographic to help you decide.
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Cobba Stevens works in sports social media and content. A keen middle-distance runner in both the ammos and the pros, he's also one of the youngest 'old bloods' supporters in Melbourne.
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Your best yet Jake, very interesting info you’ve presented.
Thanks Cookie!
Enjoying making them, I dare suggest you’ll be seeing more of them in the future!
As today is Boxing Day, it got me thinking of doing a cricket team where every player has either a connection to boxing in some way or their surname has a term used in boxing. The spelling doesn’t matter, as long as it is spelt similarly or sounds the same.
Preference was given to players who did better in Test cricket, as well as team balance.
This is the World Test Cricket Team of Boxing:
Justin Langer (Boxing enthusiast & black belt in martial arts)
Kepler Wessels (boxed regularly at a gym)
Leo O’Brien (5 Tests Australia 1932-36/won 29 fights as lightweight amateur boxer)
Graham ROOPE (21 Tests England 1973-78/Boxing Rope)
David HOOKES (Boxing hook)
Jesse Ryder (18 Tests NZ 2008-11/part time amateur boxer)
Andrew Flintoff (c) (professional boxing fight 2012)
Tim PAINE (wk) (pain in Boxing)
Johnny Douglas (23 Tests England 1911-25/won Middleweight Gold Medal at the 1908 London Olympics)
Doug RING (13 Tests Australia 1948-53/Boxing Ring)
Ralph Grant (7 Tests West Indies 1935-39/Heavyweight Boxing Champion Trinidad)
12th man: Don Cleverley (2 Tests NZ 1932-46/National Amateur Boxing Champion in NZ)
Concussion Sub: Adam Holioake (4 Tests England 1997-98/pro boxer 2012)
This team will play a pretend exhibition match against an Australian Test Cricket Team, that has played on Boxing Day.
Venue: MCG (Boxing Day after the Test match has finished for the day)
Entertainment: The song “Black Superman – ‘Muhammed Ali’, by Johnny Wakelin
Let’s hope for a good game of cricket, where every player is up for the fight!