The fourth test match in the 2013-14 Ashes Series will start on 26th December 2013 and end on 30th December 2013. The second last test match of the legendary Ashes Series will be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Cricket Fans can either catch the live match on numerous television channels in countries like Australia, England, South Africa, and India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe or witness the match first hand by booking tickets in the grand Melbourne Cricket Ground. This match due to being the second last event of the Ashes Series is bound to be a nail biting experience for all cricket fans.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground where the fourth test match of the Ashes 2013-14 Series will be held has a capacity of 100,024. It is considered to be one of the largest cricket stadiums in all of Australia and therefore can accommodate a huge number of people. It is located in East Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Cricket fans all over the world will be watching this match with thumping heartbeats because it might decide which legendary team will take the Ashes cup home.
As England is visiting Australia for the Ashes 2013-14 Tour the stadium will definitely have more Aussie fans than English fans. Both teams have their own strengths and their own weaknesses. The captain of the Aussie cricket team in Michael Clarke and the captain of the British cricket team is Alastair Cook. Both of them are very able captains and they have their own different strategies to win the series. Although test matches are not that common nowadays in cricket and ODI and T20 are taking the center stage everywhere yet the Ashes Test Series holds a certain respect in the heart of the cricket followers. It is a legacy series which every cricket fan in the world very religiously follows.