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Picture this: the year is 2020. Alyssa Healy hits yet another boundary as a packed MCG watches on. Pop star Katy Perry sings her heart out on stage. There is raucous applause when Australia finally lift the World Cup trophy.

Fast-forward to five years later. It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon – with the same team playing on the same ground. The crowds are far more sparse, but they are still eager and engaged. Australia are chasing a clean sweep, after all.

Molly Strano climbs into the crowd after the ICC Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup Final in 2020.Credit: Getty Images

For the first time in 90 years, a women’s Test match is being played at the MCG. It’s the final leg of a multi-format Ashes series, in which Australia are undefeated.

The last time the women’s national team played here, a crowd of 86,174 watched them triumph over India in the Twenty20 World Cup final.

On the first day of the women’s Ashes Test, 11,643 were in the stands at the MCG, with the match on track to surpass the aggregate record for a women’s Test – 23,207 set at Trent Bridge in 2023.

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