Aussies lose their minds over the MCG’s ‘woke’ Christmas message: ‘You’re just saying that to provoke people’

The MCG’s humorous Christmas message has outraged some cricket fans after they failed to see the funny side of the jokey way the famous ground marked December 25.

On Wednesday, the MCG’s official account on DayTest.

However, some people took offense and labeled the message as “woke” because the term “Merry Christmas” was not used.

‘Why would you say that other than to provoke people? Nobody says have a nice New Year’s Eve, a nice birthday evening or a nice Easter evening. All you woketards do is continually prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what terrible people you are,” wrote Omaha_Segmenter.

That prompted a testy response from the MCG account, which responded with: “Are you familiar with the sport of cricket, Omaha?”

Another commenter wrote: “How come people in Melbourne can’t say ‘Merry Christmas’?”

One commenter who famously criticized his failure to use the word ‘Christmas’ in the post made a hilarious comeback from the MCG account on X (pictured)

The Boxing Day Test is a national sporting treasure – and its crowd record could be broken on the first day of this year’s highly anticipated match against India (Photo: The MCG during the Boxing Day Test in 2017)

The stadium’s report hit back with: ‘We are a cricket ground. We’ll let you figure out the rest.’

Dozens of Aussies have criticized anti-woke commentators for not getting the joke and for ‘whining’ about what they wrongly saw as yet another example of political correctness gone wrong.

‘The number of people who get bent out of shape because of this is a bit ridiculous. This joke is rolled out by cricket fans every year. Nothing is meant by it, classic dad joke, harmless fun. If this kind of thing offends you, I think it’s best to leave social media,” one person wrote.

“I’ve never watched cricket in my life and I still got deeply embarrassing things in these answers,” another added.

‘People complain about everything these days. Tomorrow is Boxing Day, last time I checked,” a third commented.

Other replies in a similar vein included: ‘Intentionally targeting the less-thinking among us with a clever, timely post at this time of year? Chef’s Kiss’; ‘The people in the comments who are getting worked up are the EXACT same people who call people snowflakes because they are angry about other things’; ‘Sis. There are some very simple people in the answers to this. I hate cricket and even I know what it is about. idiots; and, ‘Oh my god, the amount of people, especially Australians, who don’t understand this actually blows my mind like COME OOOOONNN GUYS.’

Australian skipper Pat Cummins is pictured running with his son Alfie at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Christmas Day

Tests have started on Boxing Day at the MCG since 1974, with the post-Christmas match being formally established by the Australian Cricket Board in 1980.

The match has become a national institution and this year’s clash between India and Australia is one of the most highly anticipated Boxing Day fights ever.

The series is level at one win apiece after the visitors destroyed the home side in the first Test in Perth, only to suffer a heavy defeat in the second Test at Adelaide Oval.

There is a good chance the Boxing Day crowd record of 91,112 – set in 2013 – could be broken on Thursday, despite the forecast of extremely hot weather in Melbourne, with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees.

Cricket Australia head of cricket James Allsopp said his organization would ensure the correct messaging was used for those in attendance.

“The most important thing is to make sure we encourage everyone to take the right precautions,” he said, advising fans heading to the MCG to bring hats, sunscreen and stay hydrated.

‘It will probably mean extra drinks breaks for the players if the temperatures are what they expect.’