Victoria vs Queensland
17th Match

Victoria play Queensland in the 17th Match of Sheffield Shield 2026-27 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, on Wed 2 Dec 2026, starting at 10:30 local time (23:30 UTC).

Melbourne Cricket Ground (“The ‘G”) opened in 1853, holds 100,024, its ends are the Members End and the Shane Warne Stand End. Australia’s largest cricket ground, in Yarra Park, and the home of the Boxing Day Test, which starts on 26 December each year.

At Melbourne Cricket Ground: The first Test match was played here, in 1877. The first One Day International was also played here, on 5 January 1971, between Australia and England, on what had been scheduled as the fifth day of a Test; Australia won the 40-over match by 5 wickets. In the 1960–61 series, West Indies’ Joe Solomon was given out after his hat fell on the stumps while facing Richie Benaud; the crowd sided with the West Indies.

Ground facts: en.wikipedia.org ↗