Derek Pringle looks back to the Boxing Day Ashes Test of 1982 when Pom-baiting was a popular festive pastime

Cheers and jeers: England celebrate the winning wicket during the 1982 Test match at the MCG. Right: Aussie fans in the infamous Bay 13 area
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Along with a big match at Lord’s, or a full house at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, an Ashes Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is one of the great spectacles of cricket.
Australia’s foremost sporting city, Melbourne likes nothing more than to leave the formal trappings of Christmas Day at hom...