Australia won the first-ever Test match against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877. By what margin did they win?

Answer Explanation

Australia won the inaugural Test match by 45 runs, a margin later repeated exactly 100 years later in the 1977 Centenary Test at the same ground.

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