A record attendance of 47,566 witnessed the first day of the fifth India-Australia Test on Friday. It has become the highest-ever opening-day attendance for a Test match between the two teams at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The marquee Border-Gavaskar Trophy series did see the Australian public continue to turn out in large numbers.
"The records keep on falling. More than 45,000 passed through the gates of the Sydney Cricket Ground on Day 1," Cricket Australia tweeted.
This new mark follows just days after the all-time attendance record at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) was broken earlier in the series.
Well, already by lunchtime on day one, 45,465 people were inside the SCG, surpassing the previous record of 44,901 set during the 2003/04 series.
Cricket Australia also pointed out that this was the biggest crowd to attend the SCG for a Test in nearly 50 years, since 1976.
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