Australia ease past Sri Lanka in T20 but small MCG crowd concerns Maxwell

  • Only 13,175 fans is record low for T20 international at MCG
  • Great Southern Stand shut as Inglis stars in six-wicket win

Glenn Maxwell hopes a poor crowd for Australia’s Twenty20 win against Sri Lanka was more to do with Covid-19 and not with the public’s loss of appetite for international cricket.

Just 13,175 people turned out for Friday night’s match, the fourth of the five-match series, making it the lowest crowd for a T20 international ever at the MCG. There were similar poor turnouts for the first two games of the bilateral series at the SCG last week.

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