# 150th Anniversary Test 2027 (Australia v England, MCG, 11-15 March 2027) - public ticket ballot

> The public ticket ballot for 150th Anniversary Test 2027 ran 23 Dec 2025 to 6 Feb 2026.

- Canonical: https://theticketlottery.com/ballots/150th-anniversary-test-2027-public-ticket-ballot
- Sport: Cricket
- Status on 2026-09-08: Closed
- Public ballot: yes
- Access: draw
- Ballot type: free-entry style registration ballot (worldwide); separate MCC (Melbourne) member access
- Opens: 2025-12-23
- Closes: 2026-02-06
- Results: February 2026: the official MCG event page states the ballot concluded with entrants notified in February 2026 (month-level only, no official day published)
- Event dates: 2027-03-11 to 2027-03-15 (first men's day-night Test at the MCG, commemorating 150 years since the first ever Test in 1877)
- Location: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
- Organizer: Melbourne Cricket Club (MCG) with Cricket Australia
- Entry cost: Not explicitly stated on the official MCG announcement (registration-based ballot; ticket prices payable only on allocation)
- Eligibility: 'Fans from all over the world can enter the ticket ballot'; Melbourne Cricket Club members have separate access entitlements to the Members' Reserve
- Ticket prices if you win: Not announced in the ballot announcement
- Official site: https://www.mcg.org.au/news/2025/november/150th-anniversary-test-ticket-ballot-announced
- Last verified: 2026-08-31 (confidence: high)

## Where it stands

As of 2026-07-20: the ballot is closed and settled, and a further public sale phase is live. The MCG states that remaining Day 3 and Day 4 tickets went on public sale from 10:00 AEDT on Wednesday 2026-03-11 via Ticketek. Per cricket.com.au, more than 125,000 tickets sold across the first four days after the ballot, 68,289 of them to buyers outside Victoria, and the Days 1-3 public allocation is largely gone. Days 3 and 4 remain the realistic buyable days. Tickets become available in the Ticketek app once suppression lifts early in 2027.

## How to enter

The public ballot has closed (ran 2025-12-23 to 2026-02-06, entrants notified February 2026). The live route is now the public Ticketek sale at premier.ticketek.com.au, open since 2026-03-11, where Day 3 and Day 4 are the days still generally available.

## Your odds

MCG capacity of roughly 100,000 per day gives materially better odds than English Ashes venues, but worldwide entry for a one-off anniversary event made demand exceptional

## Good to know

Discovered while researching this cluster: an official cricket ticket ballot directly tied to the England-Australia rivalry, run for the MCG anniversary Test that precedes the England-hosted Ashes later in 2027

## Sources

- https://www.mcg.org.au/news/2025/november/150th-anniversary-test-ticket-ballot-announced
- https://www.mcc.org.au/news/2025/november/150th-anniversary-test-ticket-ballot-announced