Thirty years on: the Boxing Day test that stopped two cricketing nationsJAMES BRICKWOOD/FAIRFAX Mike Whitney eventually gifted the match ball to Sir Richard Hadlee, 27 years after he defied the great New Zealand fast bowler in the Boxing Day test at the MCG. His memories of that dramatic day are crystal clear, 30 years on from the epic Boxing Day test draw against Australia. BOXING DAY AT THE 'G'Outside Lord's it's the the big one for a New Zealand test cricketer. I've seen Dick at the Sydney test match and I've asked him: that lbw decision in '87? "There was a fair crowd but I reckon I've met half a million people who said they were there that day," Whitney says.

Source: Stuff December 23, 2017 19:07 UTC